We here enumerate some of the most important speech acts that intervene while performing a magic formula. These include: (a) preparatory, often implicit acts, that give conventional meanings to a number of characteristics of the gestural interactions aimed at discovering one's marital future; (b) acts of invoking, praying, commanding, promising etc. meant to ensure the cooperation of important magic auxiliaries; (c) various speech acts involved in the performance of a formula, such as saying, reciting, whispering, shouting, narrating, describing, asking questions, pursuing a dialogue, enumerating or cursing; (d) specific acts of magically "sending back" a negative charm; (e) specific acts of undoing/voiding a negative charm.
| All asked: Who is that?: | 1 (verse) |
| [no qualifier]: | 4 (verse) |
| command the Devil: | 1 (verse) |
| [no qualifier]: | 1 (verse) |
| counting from 1 to 10: | 1 (verse) |
| [no qualifier]: | 1 (verse) |
| [no qualifier]: | 1 (verse) |
| [no qualifier]: | 1 (verse) |
| list first... ninth village: | 1 (verse) |
| the days of the week: | 1 (verse) |
| Come sooner, my lot!: | 1 (verse) |
| [no qualifier]: | 1 (verse) |
| narration: | 2 (verse) |
| [no qualifier]: | 6 (verse) |
| beauty for herself, ugliness for all other women, bringing the fateman: | 1 (verse) |
| promise: | 1 (verse) |
| [no qualifier]: | 1 (verse) |
| I shouted, I wailed: | 1 (verse) |
| charm away: | 1 (verse) |
| recite: | 1 (tech) |
| say the charm: | 1 (tech) |
| ask the pig a question: | 1 (tech) |
| ask the unknown man they encounter for his name: | 1 (tech) |
| count fence posts from 9 to 1, starting at random: | 1 (tech) |
| count poles from 9 to 1, starting at random: | 1 (tech) |
| give serial possible answers to the question: | 1 (tech) |
| call cat/ dog to eat the cake: | 1 (tech) |
| decode (each substance, object indicates a quality of one's futurespouse): | 1 (tech) |
| establish a translation code: | 1 (tech) |
| [no qualifier]: | 1 (tech) |
