Pócs Éva (szerk.): Magyar ráolvasások II.

Angol nyelvű összefoglalás /Hungarian Incantations/

715 II. PARALLEL WISHES/A: SIMILE 11.1. Wish with simile with R-part Curing illnesses: The shirt of the patient is suddenly torn off his body and burried under a stone, while they say: The illness should go under the stone, like this shirt! IHejce, Abauj county/ 11.

2. Wish with simile With O-part Curing illnesses caused by the evil eye: Break off nine pieces from nine kinds of trees in the cemetery, cook them, bath the child in the water. Throw the bathing water out at sunset while saying: You should be cured as quickly as the sun goes down. This should be repeated on three

. consecutive days; by that time the child should be cured. /Nyírtura, Szabolcs county/ III III. PARALLEL WISHES/C: CONTRAST Curing acorn: When the patient glimpses the new moon, he/she takes a handful of dust, toushes the corn of his/her hand and says three times: What I see should revive what I don't see should disappear! /Alattyán, Szolnok county/ Curing warts: The healer takes the hand of the patient, then swinging it backward he/she says: The new moon should renew, what I'm pushing should disappear

. In the name of the Father and the Son Amen. /Ordas, Pest county/ IV. PARALLEL WISHES/C: IMPOSSIBLE CONDITION IV.

1. Wish With R-part Curing warts: The patient circles the wart nine time with a morsel which accidentally fell out of his/her mouth, then