Pócs Éva (szerk.): Magyar ráolvasások II.
Angol nyelvű összefoglalás /Hungarian Incantations/
711 The poetic images of the O /objective/ par t, which are syntactically subordinated to the S-part of the wish in parallel structures, can also serve as parallels. According to content these can also be analogical parallels of wishes, can express a contradiction or impossible condition while referring to some picture or process in nature /or to an "impossibility" never occuring in nature/. Epic incantations /XV./ are also similes expressing analogical magic, they tell of a succesful event in their O-part, which can serve as a "precedent" for the fulfillment of the wish expressed in the S-part. In contrast to the R-parts referring to action in parallel structures, the O-parts are usually constant and formulaic elements of the texts. They are also the most important organizing factors of incantations. Similes are especially frequent constituents of compound incantations. It is a common method of constructing incantations to refer to religious facts in a simile /e.g. to an event in the lives of Jesus or the saints: in many texts of groups XIII., XIV./. Parallels containing impossible conditions can also have a similar role. The parallel constructions of compound supplications, blessings or curses most often come about with the appearance of a subject clause introduced by who /wha t and refer to the attributes, acts of the C factor or events pertaining to it. These are usually constant, formulaic elements of text which determine the type. Certain types of supplications addressed to certain supernaturel being or to natural phenomena /e.g. "being guest at the moon": "moon, who are getting your son married, I am sending my illness to you"/ belong to these /XI. 3./. The prayers, blessings and curses of Christianity are also enlarged by references to the attributes, characte ristics and acts of the saints, Jesus, etc. /e.g. supplication to the Virgin Mary, who bore Jesus/. These additions are very typical of incantations of church origins /XIII., XIV./. This is a frequent method of "building in" "ready made" elements of
