Magical Latin

Bruce Alan Wilson bruce_alan_wilson at verizon.net
Thu Mar 26 01:43:26 UTC 2009


No: HPFGUIDX 186105

"Hocus pocus" is  itself corrupted Latin, from "hoc est 
corpus"--"This is the Body," what the priest says when 
he touches the bread at Mass.

"Abracadabra" is Semitic--either Hebrew or Aramaic.  
"Aba-beni-ruach-akadosh"--Father Son & Holy Spirit.

So even our 'real world' "magic words are Latin and 
Hebrew/Aramaic.

BAW




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