Mirjam Mencej

Monograafiad

• 2017 Styrian Witches in European Perspective. Ethnographic Fieldwork. London, New York: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer.
• 2013 Sem vso noč lutal v krogu. Simbolika krožnega gibanja v evropski tradicijski kulturi (I was wandering in circles the whole night long. The symbolism of circular movement in European traditional culture). Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU. With an English summary on pp. 223-232. available online:
• 2010 Pripovedi s Kozjanskega in Obsotelja (Narratives from Kozjansko and Obsotelje regions). Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts.
• 2007 Po poteh zgodb (On the paths of tales). Podsreda: Kozjanski park.
• 2006 Coprnice so me nosile. Raziskava vaškega čarovništva na podeželju vzhodne Slovenije ob prelomu tisočletja (Witches led me astray: Witchcraft in the rural environment of eastern Slovenia at the turn of the Millennium). Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts.
• 2001 Gospodar volkov v slovanski mitologiji (The Master of the Wolves in Slavic Folklore). Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts. (With an English summary.)
• 1997 Voda v predstavah starih Slovanov o posmrtnem življenju in šegah ob smrti (The Meaning of Water in Old Slavic Notions of Life after Death and in Slavic Funeral customs). Ljubljana: Slovenian ethnological Society.

Toimetatud raamatud

• 2008 Space and Time in Europe: East and West, Past and Present. Zupaničeva knjižnica, no. 25. Ljubljana: Oddelek za etnologijo in kulturno antropologijo, Filozofska fakulteta (Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana).
• 2010 (koos Dan Podjed'iga) Ustvarjanje prostorov (The Making of Spaces). Pontes academici. Ljubljana: Filozofska fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana)

Artiklid inglise, prantsuse või saksa keeles

• 2018 "Magic and counter-magic in the 21th-century Bosnia". In: Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe: Middle Ages to the Present. Jonathan Berry, Owen Davies and Cornelie Usborne (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer, pp. 249-268.
• 2017 "How and Why to Talk about Witchcraft? Discourses on Witchcraft and Uses of Bewitchment Narratives in 21st Century Rural Eastern Slovenia". Temenos, 53 (1): 143-179.
• 2016 "Discourses on witchcraft and uses of witchcraft discourse", Fabula 57 (3-4): 248-262.
• 2015 "Unwitching. The Social and Magical Practice in Traditional European Communities". Western Folklore 74.2 (Spring 2015): 115-159.
• 2015 "Security Guards as Participants in and Mediators of Ghost Tradition". Fabula 56 (1/2), 2015: 40-66.
• 2015 "Origins of Witchcraft Accusations". Studia Mythologica Slavica 18/2015: 111-130.
• 2014 "The Symbolism of the Directions of Circular Movement". In: Za etnologijata: bezbroj pragovi sme preminale. (Collection of articles dedicated to 40 years of scientific and research work of Professor Aneta Svetieva). Ljupčo S. Risteski, Ana Aštalkovska Gajtanoska, eds. Skopje: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Mathematics, University St. Cyril and Methodius, Macedonia. Pp. 199-222.
• 2014 "Belief in stories about witches in contemporary Slovenia". In: 15th Congress of The International Society for Folk Narrative Research (June 21-27, 2009 Athens). PLEMMENOS, Ioannis ed.), TSICHRITZIS, Georgia (ur.). Narratives across space and time : transmissions and adaptations :proceedings of the 15th Congress of The International Society for Folk Narrative Research (June 21-27, 2009 Athens), (Publications of the Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, 31). Athens: Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Academy of Athens, 2014, vol. 2. Pp. 489-507.
• 2012 "Envie et sorcellerie dans la Slovénie rurale". Ethnologie française 42, vol. 2: 313-23.
• 2011 "The Role of Gender in Accusations of Witchcraft: the Case of Eastern Slovenia". Český lid 98, issue 4, 393-412.
• 2011 Connecting Threads, Folklore. EJF (Tartu, Online) 48: 55-84. http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol48/mencej.pdf
• 2011 "Witches in the shape of lights and fires". In: SEDAKOVA, I. A., CIV ́JAN, Tatjana Vladimirovna, MAKARCEV, M. M. (eds.). Balkanskii spektr : ot sveta k cvetu : mednarodna konferenca, Moskva, 22.-24. mar. 2011, (Balkanskie čtenija, 11). Moscow: Institut slavjanovedenija RAN: Centr lingvokul'turnyh issledovanii "BALCANICA", 2011, 34-39.
• 2009 "Spinning taboos in Europe". In: Socijalni i duhovni aspekti na materijalnata kultura (Social and spiritual aspects of material culture). Svetieva, Aneta, ed. Skopye: Prirodno-matematički fakultet, Institut za etnologija i antropologija, Univerzitet Sv. Kiril i Metodij, 2009, 135-58.
• 2009 "Wolf holidays among Southern Slavs in the Balkans". – Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 54, 2009, 337-58.
• 2009 "Witches, magic and fairies in Macedonia and Slovenia". In: Šmitek, Zmago, Svetieva, Aneta (eds.). Macedonian lifeworlds: from mythic landscape to the state. Saarbrücken: VDM, 2009, 43-79.
• 2009 "Konceptualizacija prostora v pripovedih o nadnaravnem poteku časa" (Conceptualization of space in narratives about supernatural lapse of time), Studia mythologica Slavica 12, 2009, pp. 187-206.
• 2009 "Narrating about witches". In: Brednich, Rolf Wilhelm (ed.). Erzählkultur : Beiträge zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Erzählforschung : Hans-Jörg Uther zum 65. Geburtstag. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009, 207-22.
• 2009 (koos Kehnel, Annette'iga). "Representing eternity: circular movement in the cloister, round dancing, winding-staircases and dancing angels". In: Müller, Anne, Stöber, Karen (eds).

Self-representation of medieval religious communities: the British isles in context (Vita regularis, 40). Münster: LIT, 2009, 67-97.

• 2009 "Spinning through the time". In: Sedakova, Irina A., Civ ́jan, Tat ́jana V., Makarcev, M. M.., Sidneva, S. A. (eds.). Perehody. Peremeny. Prevrašenija : tezisy i materialy, (Balkanskie čtenija, 10). Moscow: Institut slavjanovedenija RAN: Centr lingvokul'turnyh issledovanii "BALCANICA", 2009, 136-40.
• 2008 "The night is yours, the day is mine! Functions of stories of night-time encounters with witches in eastern Slovenia", Estudos de literatura oral 13/14, (2007/2008): 189-206.
• 2009 "Walking in circles". In: Mirjam Mencej (ed.). Space and Time in Europe: East and West, Past and Present. Ljubljana: Faculty of Arts, 35-65.
• 2008 "Witchcraft in eastern Slovenia and western Macedonia: a comparative analysis". In: Šmitek, Zmago, Svetieva, Aneta (eds.) Post-Yugoslav lifeworlds: results of the Slovenian/Macedonian ethnological and anthropological research project 2000-2002 (Zupaničeva knjižnica, no. 15/I). 2nd ed. Ljubljana: Oddelek za etnologijo in kulturno antropologijo, Filozofska fakulteta: Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, 2008, 37-67.
• 2008 "Witchcraft in Eastern Slovenia". In: Pócs Éva, Klaniczay Gábor (eds.). Witchcraft mythologies and persecutions (Demons, spirits, witches, vol. 3). Budapest, New York: Central European University Press. Pp. 295 - 314.
• 2007 "Night witches in rural eastern Slovenia in the context of Slavic and European parallels". Ethnologia slovaca et slavica 32, 2007: 45 - 58.
• 2007 "The christian and pre-christian conception of the Master of the wolves". EthnoAnthropoZoom http://www.iea.pmf.ukim.edu.mk/EAZ/EAZ_05/EAZ_2004_PDF/Mencej_Mirjam_Eng.pdf .
• 2007 "The Slavic Summer/Winter Opposition in the Pastoral Year and the Christian and Pre-Christian Figures Identifiable as the Master of the Wolves", Cosmos : 79 - 111.
• 2006 "Soldat und Tod" (AT 1082a), Enzyklopädie des Märchens : Handwörterbuch zur historischen und vergleichenden Erzählforschung . Berlin; New York: W. de Gruyter, 1977 - <2004>, bd. 12, 860 - 62.
• 2006 "The role of legend in constructing annual cycle". Folklore (Tartu, Online) 32: 99 - 128. http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol32/mirjam.pdf
• 2005 "Witchcraft in Eastern Slovenia and Western Macedonia – a comparative analysis". In: Zmago Šmitek, Aneta Svetieva, eds. Post - Yugoslav Lifestyles Between Tradition and Modernity. Ljubljana: Faculty of Arts. Pp. 37 - 67.
• 2004 "Water and death in Slavic folk beliefs and customs". In: Fifor, Mihai (ed.). Symposia : Journal for studies in ethnology and anthropology . Craiova: Aius: Center for Studies in Folklife and Traditional Culture of Dolj County, 2004, pp. 183 - 97.
• 2002 "Legends, Incantations, Beliefs and Customs related to the Master of the Wolves", Slavica Gandensia 29, Gent, 65 - 82.
• 2002 "Master of the wolves in the Slavic folklore". In: Baskar, Bojan, Weber, Irena (eds.). MESS. Vol. 4, Mediterranean Ethnological Summer School, Piran, Pirano, Slovenia 1999 and 2000, (Zbirka Županičeva knjižnica, št. 7). Ljubljana: Filozofska fak ulteta, Oddelek za etnologijo in kulturno antropologijo, 2002. Pp. 219 - 44.
• 1998 "Das Wasser als Grenze zum Jenseits in Slowenischen Volksliteratur", Studia Mythologica Slavica 1, 1998: 205 - 24.

Intervjuud

• Witchcraft in Rural Slovenia with Mirjam Mencej