Pócs Éva (szerk.): Magyar ráolvasások II.
Angol nyelvű összefoglalás /Hungarian Incantations/
708 Statement s /affirmative and negative/ do not express the magic function directly. As impersonal texts they do not refer to the effect of A on B, only to the final result of "fulfilment" /VI./. This can happen in different ways both on the logical and on the grammatical level: for example through stating the wished aim or through negating the present state of things /"the illness disappeared/ disappears", "the illness does not exist", "the illness is not illness", etc./. A certain part of the incantations function inde pendently as tools of magic /even if there is some accompanying action/, an other part only exists in the action-text relationship expressing the magic function together with the action. In these cases the text refers to the action: supplies it with magic meaning, makes its belief content clearer, etc. Elements of the text refering to the action are called rite /R/ element s /in compound incantations R-parts / . References to action can happen in statement /VIII,/ or begging-commanding forms /II.l., IV. 1./ alike, or by the use of a metaphor refering to the everyday and the magic meaning of the action at the same time /e.g. "collecting barley": VIII .1.1-23., IX., X.l-10; which in Hungarian is also the world for stye/. These simple forms and the above mentioned methods of referring to the action form the bases of the parallel structures of the more complicated incantations: The simplest repetitive forms are brought about by the repetition of statements or wishes with parallelisms of ideas. Repetition of "innumerable" wishes is the structural framework of many very ancient types of healing texts /I. 2.86-89./ but is can also be part of compound types of magical or religious or magico-religious nature /XII. 31-54., XIII. 31-32., XIII. 33-38., XIII. 47-80., XV. 2./. Repetition of wishes can also be a basic structural element of those incantations which represent a transitional state towards more playful rhymes /XVIII./. The basic principle of "Counting" incantations /VII./ is similar. The counting is
