Magic Expletives

"There is was, the old Magic Word, clear as a bell, booming like a foghorn. 'Magic-Word you, you mother-Magic-Word-er.'"
—Joseph Di Prisco, Confessions of Brother Eli, 2000

Words within Words

"Any word containing a magic word must be a magic word."
—Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, 1983, p. 544

Higitus Figitus Migitus Mum

Higitus Figitus migitus mum,
pres-ti-dig-i-ton-i-um.
—Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, Disney's The Sword in the Stone

Also:

• Higitus Figitus zoomacazam
• Hockety pockety wockety wack, abracabra dabra nack
• Ali-i-ca-fez bal-a-ca-zez malaca-mez meripides
• Higitus Figitus zumbabazing

Sometimes They Work Wonders

"Before I send him up in the hills I'm going to give him a magic word."
"That's a good idea," said the Professor. "Sometimes they work wonders."
—Heywood Broun, Seeing Things at Night, 1921

YHVH

The word of YHVH is refined
As silver and gold are refined.
When these letters came forth, they were all refined,
Carved precisely, sparkling, flashing.
All of Israel saw the letters
Flying through space in every direction,
Engraving themselves on the tablets of stone.

—The Zohar, quoted in People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, 2008. (Via DJMisc)

Neon Magic

Photo by stgermh.

Flash Bam Alakazam

I was walking along minding my business
When love came and hit me in the eye
Flash! Bam! Alakazam!
Out of an orange colored sky.

—Milton DeLugg & Willie Stein, “Orange Colored Sky,” 1950