Pócs Éva (szerk.): Magyar ráolvasások II.
Angol nyelvű összefoglalás /Hungarian Incantations/
712 different ecclesiastical genres or of adding spontaneously improvised but well known religious contents to incantation or prayer structures; just like in the case of similes mentioned above /e.g. XIV. 42-47./. The meaning of one part of incantations does not refer to the magic function, but is the textual expression of other beliefs. As the "textual tools of magic" these can also be regarded as incantations, because the aims, modes and situations of their use are the same as those of incantations. These I call belief-based text s. The "denial of the patient" /VI. 2./ is one of these. The text is used for curing, but the underlying belief content is the misleading of an illness causing being. Similarly they can be the textual formulations of "tasks" given to supernatural beings /V./, which function as protective incantations. Some of these belief-based texts have the usual structural scheme of incantations, some of them do not. They are part of the functional body of incantations through the underlying belief content which is the main factor of passing on the tradition. These groups of texts, however, function within the relatively closed unit of text and concrete function. These closed groups usually contain some spontaneous texts expressing the beliefs of a given place as if improvised, and also others which have a constant structure and content. These texts which are on different levels of text organization are in close connection with each other and are to a great extent interchangeable. Rite-based text s are handed down as parts of compound rites, connected to one of the constituent elements. With different meaning and in different form they refer to the whole or part of the same rite. They may express other functions of the curing action, but they can also be related to "real" incantations expressing the magic function. In this case they show similarities in content and form and have the structural scheme of "real" incantations. E.g. some of the texts for
