Pócs Éva (szerk.): Magyar ráolvasások II.
Angol nyelvű összefoglalás /Hungarian Incantations/
709 a series of statements of commands/wishes which reaches from the statement of the present state to the wished for state by reducing the numbers. Contrasting forms consist of series of statements or commands/wishes expressing contrasting belief contents, which might also present the wish of the S-part with some contrasting process /e.g. the growth of the moon - the waning of the illness, III. 1-10; the going away of evil - the arrival of good, III. 11-38./. Similes expressing analogical magic or the making of impossible conditions can also appear in such syntactically unmarked structures /"one good thing should grow/is growing - the other good thing should grow/is growing" II. 1.106-108./ but this is less typical at least in Hungarian incantations , where the if-the n structures are much more numerous . The dialogue forms of affirmative incantations are also characterized by repetitive parallelisms of ideas; they contain parallel references to the present and the wished for state, to the everyday and to the magic meaning of the action /e.g. statement - negation, or two statements of different truth contents, question - answer, etc: "something exists - it is not true", "something exists - it does not exist", etc.: VI. 1., VIII., 31-46./. That is to say, the parallelism of the metaphors of simple forms appears in syntactical parallelism. When the two different meanings of the metaphor referring to the action are expressed parallel to each other in statements, syntactical 'markers' can be used; clauses connected by conjunctions. Among these the not this - but that co-ordinate structure has an outstanding role /VIII. 2./. This seems to be one of the relevant structures of the improvised explanation of any kind of magic action, at least in Eastern Europe . Most important among syntactically marked forms of
