Magic Words

Create pure wonder and awe whenever you speak.

A one-of-a-kind resource for magicians and word lovers, exploring the most intriguing magic words and phrases from around the world.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Magic Words Change as We Use Them

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"Just as language will change as its speakers use it over decades and centuries, so the language that creates the world—the language th...

Monday, October 26, 2009

In the Mouth of the White Squirrel

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"But he found no word beneath the tongue of the reindeer, no magical word in the mouth of the white squirrel, not even so much as the b...

Friday, October 23, 2009

Epigraphs as Magic Words

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"On the next page the title again, and beneath it in small italics one of those little quotations ... many old books had, like a magici...

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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Thanks to Jim H. Moreno for naming our Magic Words: A Dictionary as a favorite resource for spell casting in fantasy role playing games.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Brumagem

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“What was the word—the magic word? Brumagem —that was it— Brumagem . An enchanting word! . . . A word to be repeated over to himself softl...

Saturday, October 17, 2009

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Handwritten magician's book, Batak Culture, Indonesia, 1800s. ( Source )

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

A Novelist's Magic Words

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"Like a conjurer, a novelist should be able to take the rabbit out of the hat without letting his audience in on the way in which he di...

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