Pócs Éva (szerk.): Magyar ráolvasások II.
Angol nyelvű összefoglalás /Hungarian Incantations/
713 curing harm done by the evil eye express the function of "finding out", which, however, show a tendency to become "real" incantations: the enumerative structures, originally intended to find out the identify of the person doing harm, are coupled with elements of text expressing the magic function or themselves change in that direction /XII./, Often texts of similar meaning connected to the same compound action express the identical actual function through different forms, that is, the same belief content appears in spontaneous - improvised - texts having no set forms, and in local text types which have unchanging form and content. The latter is e.g. characteristic of stye-healing texts accompanying actions of barley collecting /VIII .1.-24., IX., X.1.10./. It follows from the functional definition of incantations that they cannot be confined to a purely text-based framework. The expression of identical belief contents in different forms occurs in other groups than the above mentioned par excellence belief-based and ritual-based ones, as well. These form a strong unity in their common or constant elements of content. These groups or types are classified according to the structural features of on e of their subgroups or subtypes and the formally "alien" groups which, however, belong to them on the basis of related or identical content are not set apart. The most important groups in which there are texts closely related by their function and content but often "group alien" because of their form, are published under subtitles within a more significant structural unit. For example, getting rid of pests /1.2.39-69./, egg-giving /ir. 19-25./, dew collecting /VIII .54-60./ etc.; but within each important structural unit there can be found smaller units which are not separetly marked and contain 2-3 texts closely related by function and content but differing in form. Apart from these compromises the texts are arranged in a sequence from simple to complex in accordance with the
