[HPforGrownups] My thoughts on some things.......

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 148349

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From: "Adzuroth" <adzuroth at hotmail.com>
Subject: [HPforGrownups] My thoughts on some things.......


> killing curse, or perhaps casting a different spell
> with the same visual characteristics as Avada Kedavra
> (which sounds suspiciously like Abracadabra........anyone
> know why?).

The similarity isn't accidental.

We associate Abracadabra with stage magicians these days but in earlier days
it was a very powerful magical word used by charmers and cunning folk -
stage magicians only took it over when cunning folk started to die out and
be considered to be part of "superstition". Before then, it wasn't a word
that anyone used lightly and a word that had been part of magical usage for
centuries before, often on talismans and charms, written like this

ABRACADABRA
ABRACADABR
ABRACADAB
ABRACADA
ABRACAD
ABRACA
ABRAC
ABRA
ABR
AB
A

(can't do it as a proper triangle on Outlook but you get the general idea)

hwyl

Ffred

O Benryn wleth hyd Luch Reon
Cymru yn unfryd gerhyd Wrion
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