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St Gall charm 3
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The third of four charms found on a fragment from St Gall. It consists of a Latin charm beg. Caput Christi, which is also attested in the Book of Nunnaminster and two later manuscripts, and an Old Irish instruction on performance. While the Caput Christi is seemingly associated with ailments of the eyes, the instruction interprets it as a charm against headache (cenn-galar).
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Tuomi, Ilona, “Nine hundred years of the Caput Christi charm: scribal strategies and textual transmission”, in: Ilona Tuomi, John Carey, Barbara Hillers, and Ciarán Ó Gealbhain (eds), Charms, charmers and charming in Ireland: from the medieval to the modern, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2019. 51–64.
