Hocus-pocus
‘Hocus Pocus’ is another magic word that is often used by magicians. Unlike ‘Abracadabra’, the origin of this magic phrase lies in the more recent past, around the early 17th century, to be more precise. Like ‘Abracadabra’ and ‘Alakazam’, there are several theories trying to explain the origin of this phrase.
One, for instance, is offered by John Tillotson, the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1694. Tillotson suggests that this is a corruption of ‘hoc est corpus meum’ (this is my body), and is a parody of the consecration during the Catholic Mass .
Another suggestion is that the words just sounded exotic and this pair of words was coined simply because they rhymed. It may be a nonsense word made up solely to impress people during a magic trick.
Other Reduplicated phrases
What’s the meaning of the phrase ‘Hocus-pocus’?
‘Hocus pocus’ is a supposed magical charm previously uttered by magicians. More recently it has been used as a general term for trickery or magic.
What’s the origin of the phrase ‘Hocus-pocus’?
From the early 17th century onwards ‘hocus pocus’ (now more often spelled as a single hyphenated word) has been used as an incantation by conjurers when performing tricks. Hocus-pocus is now treated like abracadabra, shazam and ‘izzy-wizzy, let’s get busy’ that is, as stage patter, used mostly by comedy magicians. When it was first coined though magicians could reasonably have expected that such exotic-sounding phrases would fool some of the audience into the believing that mysterious forces were being conjured up. In fact, now and then, these ‘charms’ provide that essential element required for all conjuring tricks – distraction.
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Hocus-pocus
Hocus-pocus is a reference to the actions of magicians, often as the stereotypical magic words spoken when bringing about some sort of change. It was once a common term for a magician, juggler, or other similar entertainers. In extended usage, the term is often used (pejoratively) to describe irrational human activities that appear to depend on magic. Examples are given below.[1]
Examples of the extended use of the term hocus-pocus
Those relating to divination or other activity by one practitioner working in isolation: Haruspication (divination by inspection of entrails), and necromancy.
Those relating to a magical connection between two or more people: Subconscious direction, cross-dreaming, extrasensory perception, split subjectivity, telepathy, clairvoyance, channelling, psychic transcription, ‘faculty X’, ‘mind energy’.[1]
History
The earliest known English-language work on magic, or what was then known as legerdemain (sleight of hand), was published anonymously in 1635 under the title Hocus Pocus Junior: The Anatomie of Legerdemain.[2] Further research suggests that “Hocus Pocus” was the stage name of a well known magician of the era. This may be William Vincent, who is recorded as having been granted a license to perform magic in England in 1619.[3] Whether he was the author of the book is unknown.
Conjectured origins
The origins of the term remain obscure. The most popular conjecture is that it is a garbled Latin religious phrase or some form of ‘dog’ Latin. Some have associated it with similar-sounding fictional, mythical, or legendary names. Others suggest it is merely a combination of nonsense words.
Latin and pseudo-Latin origins
Painting titled “Hoc est corpus”, for a set of tapestries celebrating the Eucharist, by Peter Paul Rubens, circa 1625
One theory is that the term is a corruption of hax pax max Deus adimax, a pseudo-Latin phrase used in the early 17th century as a magical formula by conjurors.[4]
Another theory is that it is a corruption or parody of the Catholic liturgy of the Eucharist, which contains the phrase “Hoc est enim corpus meum“, meaning This is my body.[5] This explanation goes at least as far back as a 1694 speculation by the Anglican prelate John Tillotson:
In all probability those common juggling words of hocus pocus are nothing else but a corruption of hoc est corpus, by way of ridiculous imitation of the priests of the Church of Rome in their trick of Transubstantiation.[6][7]
This theory is supported by the fact that in the Netherlands, the words Hocus pocus are usually accompanied by the additional words pilatus pas, and this is said to be based on a post-Reformation parody of the traditional Catholic rite of transubstantiation during Mass, being a Dutch corruption of the Latin words “Hoc est corpus meum” and the credo, which reads in part, “sub Pontio Pilato passus et sepultus est“, meaning under Pontius Pilate he suffered and was buried.[8] In a similar way the phrase is in Scandinavia usually accompanied by filiokus, a corruption of the term filioque,[citation needed] from the Latin version of the Nicene Creed, meaning “and from the Son”. The variant spelling filipokus is common in Russia, a predominantly Eastern Orthodox nation, as well as certain other post-Soviet states.[citation needed] Additionally, the word for “stage trick” in Russian, fokus, is derived from hocus pocus.[9]
Magician’s name
Others believe that it is an appeal to the folkloric Norse magician Ochus Bochus:
It is possible that we here see the origin of hocus pocus, and Old Nick.
According to Sharon Turner in The History of the Anglo-Saxons, they were believed to be derived from Ochus Bochus, a magician and demon of the north.[10]
Nonsense word
As an alternative to other theories, it may simply be pseudo-Latin with no meaning, made up to impress people:
I will speak of one man… that went about in King James his time … who called himself, “The Kings Majesties most excellent Hocus Pocus“, and so was he called, because that at the playing of every Trick, he used to say, “Hocus pocus, tontus talontus, vade celeriter jubeo“, a dark composure of words, to blinde the eyes of the beholders, to make his Trick pass the more currently without discovery, because when the eye and the ear of the beholder are both earnestly busied, the Trick is not so easily discovered, nor the Imposture discerned.— Thomas Ady, A Candle in the Dark, 1656[11]
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31 January 2021
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Come Little Children[Chorus] [Verse 1] |
[Verse 2]
Hush now dear children, it must be this way Too weary of life and deceptions Rest now my children For soon we’ll away Into the calm and the quiet Oooh-oooh (Oooh-oooh) Oooh-oooh (Oooh-oooh) Oooh-oooh (Aaah-aaah) Oooh-oooh (Aaah-aaah) [Chorus]
Come little children I’ll take thee away Into a land of enchantment Come little children The time’s come to play Here in my garden of shadows Oooh-oooh (Oooh-oooh) Oooh-oooh (La-la-la-la) |
The song was performed by Sarah Sanderson’s actress, Sarah Jessica Parker.
I will speak of one man … that went about in King James his time … who called himself, the Kings Majesties most excellent Hocus Pocus, and so was called, because that at the playing of every Trick, he used to say, Hocus pocus, tontus tabantus, vade celeriter jubeo, a dark composure of words, to blinde the eyes of the beholders, to make his Trick pass the more currantly without discovery. [Thomas Ady, “A Candle in the Dark,” 1655]
Compare hiccus doccius or hiccus doctius, “formula used by jugglers in performing their feats” (1670s), also a common name for a juggler, which OED says is “conjectured to be a corruption of” Latin hicce es doctus “here is the learned man,” “if not merely a nonsense formula simulating Latin.” Also compare holus-bolus (adv.) “all at a gulp, all at once,” which Century Dictionary calls “A varied redupl. of whole, in sham-Latin form.” As a noun meaning “juggler’s tricks,” hocus-pocus is recorded from 1640s.
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Nov 23, 2021
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This “song” from 1973 is a perfect lesson in how powerfully music can affect the spirit realm without any words being uttered. Hocus Pocus is at work, whether you can see it or not.
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Hocus Pocus: A Tale of Magnificent Magicians – June 1, 2008
Hocus Pocus: A Tale of Magnificent MagiciansMagic tricks to amaze your friends and stupefy your family from the magic consultant on the Harry Potter movies, with an introduction by Daniel Radcliffe.
From the magic consultant on the HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN movie comes a book of astounding (and astoundingly easy!) magic tricks. Author Paul Kieve takes would-be wizards through a parade of the world’s top magicians – Harry Houdini, the Great Lafayette – and unveils how easy it is to perform their most spell-binding magic tricks. An introduction by Daniel Radcliffe makes this the fall must-have for all budding magicians and Harry Potter fans.
As Daniel Radcliffe says, “Step into the pages of HOCUS POCUS and prepare to be astonished!”
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Journal List / Emerg Infect Dis / v.25(2); 2019 Feb / PMC6346453
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Malaria Elimination―Not Just a Bunch of Hocus-Pocus
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Quintus Serenus Sammonicus (c. 370 CE–212 CE), Liber Medicinalis. Unknown transcriber, Abbey of St. Augustine, Canterbury, England. Parchment from 13th century. 7 in × 4.7 in/180 mm × 120 mm. British Library, London, UK. Public Domain in most countries other than the United Kingdom.
Abracadabra! This ubiquitous incantation remains a staple of stage magicians, children’s stories, and purveyors of pseudoscience. The exact origin of the term engenders debate, and pundits have suggested various ancient Aramaic, Hebrew, and Latin terms as the source. What is known is that its first appearance in print is found in the surviving fragments of the third century CE book Liber Medicinalis (sometimes known as De Medicina Praecepta Saluberrima) written by Quintus Serenus Sammonicus. Though Serenus was the physician to the Roman Emperor Caracalla and considered “the learned man of his age,” few details of his life are known.1
Following the practice of his time, Serenus composed his teachings as didactic poetry. The surviving fragment of Liber Medicinalis includes popular treatments, remedies, and antidotes written in verse.
Among those remedies, Serenus proposed a magical procedure based on the wizardly word Abracadabra for treating “semitertian” fever, known today as malaria. That malady devastated ancient Rome and was sometimes also called “rage of the Dog Star” as the ascendance of Sirius presaged the oppressive heat and humidity thought to cause fever and illness. Some wealthy Romans sought to escape this scourge by moving to villas they had built in the hills away from the “bad air” (malum aeris in Latin) emanating from the marshes and wetlands surrounding Rome. With a bit of alchemical panache, Serenus offered another approach documented in chapter 51 of the Liber Medicinalis:
Inscribis chartae, quod dicitur Abracadabra:
Saepius et subter repetas, sed detrahe summae,
Et magis atque magis desint elementa figuris:
Singula quae semper rapies et coetera figes,
Donec in angustam redigatur litera conum.
His lino nexis collum redimire memento
Various translations of the Latin are available. This one comes from by A. C. Wootton, who, for three decades, served as editor of the trade journal Chemist and Druggist.
“Write several times on a piece of paper the word ‘Abracadabra,’ and repeat the words in the lines below but take away letters from the complete word and let the letters fall away one at a time in each succeeding line. Take these away ever, but keep the rest until the writing is reduced to a narrow cone. Remember to tie these papers with flax and bind them round the neck.”
The idea underscoring this magical thinking was that by making the letters disappear, the illness would likewise vanish. This month’s cover image shows a 13th century transcription of this page from Liber Medicinalis and comes from the Benedictine Abbey of St. Augustine, Canterbury, England. Like a slice of pie resting in the margin of the book, the ABRACADABRA cone is visible near the lower right of the parchment. The original Latin, rendered painstakingly in ornate Gothic and Gothic cursive, explains Serenus’ process for creating the triangular charm inscribed with the enchantment and for wearing it as an amulet. Perhaps to hedge his bets, Serenus also suggested smearing lion’s fat on one’s body or wearing a domestic cat’s skin festooned with jewels to ward off these fevers.
Feline byproducts, bejeweled or otherwise, magic words, and amulets all failed, and malaria continues to be one of the most severe global public health problems. Fortunately, though, the scientists of today have been a bit more effective through core interventions of surveillance, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. In many countries, using artemisinin-based combination therapy, undertaking vector control measures such as using long-lasting insecticides on bed nets and interior walls of houses, and strengthening public health infrastructure have successfully reduced cases and deaths.
While progress is starting to plateau in many highly malaria-endemic countries, several other countries either have eliminated, or are on the verge of eliminating, malaria. Paraguay and Uzbekistan recently celebrated their initiation into the malaria elimination club, receiving certification by the World Health Organization (WHO). El Salvador and China have recently reached zero cases. Both countries will receive their official WHO certification when they have “proven, beyond reasonable doubt, that the chain of local transmission of all human malaria parasites has been interrupted nationwide for at least the past 3 consecutive years; and that a fully functional surveillance and response system that can prevent re-establishment of indigenous transmission is in place.”
In just the past 10 years, the number of malaria-endemic countries has decreased from 108 (in 2008) to 90 (in 2018). In 2017, about half of all of the remaining malaria-endemic countries had reported fewer than 10,000 cases per year. WHO has outlined a strategy to continue paring down that list of malaria-endemic countries, one by one, with ambitious targets through 2030. Peering into our crystal ball, we hope, one day, to see that final country on the list like Serenus’ ultimate letter A and then Abracadabra ―all gone.
Do you recognize that they are taking credit for the reductions we have seen in Malaria cases. Even though Malaria has not been eliminated ANYWHERE. They fail to acknowledge that all naturally occurring disease comes and goes, ebbs and flows. This is a natural process that God built into our environment in order to keep our immune systems functioning properly. Exposure to disease is one of the things that creates immunity in our system.
Did you also catch that what they are really promoting here is the “SURVEILLANCE AND RESPONSE SYSTEM” in other words, they want all nations to monitor you and every aspect of your health 24/7 and use any excuse to isolate and or quarantine you?
I just happened upon this article as I was searching out information on Hocus Pocus. I am glad God lead me here. You know that the Medical Industry is merely ALCHEMY with a new name. They are using witchcraft/magic/sorcery on us. BEWARE!
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HOCUS POCUS or HO-CUS PO-CUS
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Ho Definition & Meaning – Merriam-Webster
Numerology
Cus
Cus – cause an effect
Cus is just a shortened version of the word BECAUSE.
Cus to feel (sense by touch; experience an emotion or other mental state about)
Urban Dictionary: Cus
-cus Latin Etymology
From Proto-Italic *-kos, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-ḱos. Cognate with Ancient Greek -κός (-kós), Proto-Germanic *-gaz, Sanskrit -शस (-śasa) and Old Church Slavonic -ъкъ (-ŭkŭ).
PIE *-ko- on noun stems carried the meaning ‘characteristic of, like, typical, pertaining to’, and on adjectival stems it acted emphatically.
Numerology value of Cus
Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Numerology
Chaldean : 6
Pythagorean : 4
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Numerology value of Cus
Chaldean: 3
Pythagorean 7
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MY CONCLUSION:
| Ho | Cus | Po | Cus |
| Pay Attention | because | you’re about to drink a magic potion | to cause you to feel, experience |
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Pythagoras 7
Chaldean 6
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Chaldean: 3 Pythagorean 7 |
Chaldean : 6 Pythagorean : 4 |
Chaldean: 3 Pythagorean 7 |