Author: Lielbardis, Aigars
Title: 150. kolekcija Buramvardi / Collection 150 Charms
Description: Riga, LU Literaturas, folkloras, 2020. orig. wrappers. 21x15cm, 223 pages. Series: LU Literaturas, folkloras un makslas instituts, Latviesu Folkloras Kratuve, LFK krajums, 4.. ISBN: 9789984893471. Minor wear. VG. ¶ Bilimngual Latvian / English text on facing pages. Study of 19th-20th century handwritten Latvian charm books and papers, with numerous color facsimile photo reproductions. ["The book provides an insight into the research of Latvian mantras, it describes the numerically largest groups of mantras (rose words, pain words, blood stopping words, yarrow and spleen words) and includes the most common types of the Heavenly Books. The book is rich in visual material - photographs of spellbooks and notebooks stored in the Latvian folklore archive.,.."- translation of publisher's description],

Keywords: 9789984893471 Latvia, Folklore, Charms, Ethnology, Anthropology, Baltic, Social History, Folk Literature,