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.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Magic on the Breath

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"For the Rauto [people of Papua New Guinea] much of the power of magic is thought to be carried on the breath of the magician. When a ...

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Magical-Sounding Words for Relaxation

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"Weird fiction" author Clark Ashton Smith read a dictionary for relaxation, delighting in the more obscure and magical-sounding wo...

Monday, February 21, 2011

Berimed

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In Shakespeare's As You Like It , Rosalind says, "I was berimed ." The word literally means "to be rhymed" and is s...

Friday, February 18, 2011

Words Enchant in Context

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"Words work when the imagination makes them work; in our minds we make and therefore remake our world. ... Words enchant in one setting...

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Treasure

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Here's another look at the magic word treasure : Treasure! Next to gold, this is probably the single most magical word in the English l...

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Conflagration

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This magic word, referring to an intense blaze, appears in Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Black Cat." "Poe's prose seem...

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

To Make it True

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"Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true." —Salman Rushdie

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