Abstract
As PART OF AN ONGOING STUDY of aspects of oral tradition in the Balkans,' in this paper we present evidence that healing charms are still being transmitted orally and continue as part of the contemporary folk repertoire. Our concern here is with process, both cultural and linguistic. We want to discover why as well as how orality works as a vital means of preservation and transmission. This we undertake by examining bajanje, a form of folk curing relying primarily on incantation. Texts of basme, oral charms uttered by practitioners of this type of medicine, have been reported by local ethnographers and others over the past fifty years.2 While these fragments are of interest comparatively,
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