The One Minute Mystic

Instantly understand and even see a mystical image when you gaze upon a heavenly body. We discuss a technique for staring at the sun and other sources of bright light in this field report from USA's oldest city: Saint Augustine, Florida. (See our companion booklet The One Minute Mystic.)

Reverse the Spell

A line taken out of context, from our dictionary of magic words:

“'And to reverse this amazing effect,’ I boomed in my biggest stage voice, ‘you simply reverse the spell.’"

Kazazum and Kazuzam

The anagrammatic magic words Kazazum and Kazuzam are used for opening and closing a tent in "Skeezicks, Sknks and Co" by George Randolph Chester (McClure's magazine, Feb. 1907).

Nonmagic Words Hinder Real Communication

"Nonmagic words—the vocabulary of the human race—hinder real communication. ... Magic words emanate from the heart." —Phillip Cooper

It is a Seed

Can you guess which magic word is referenced here?

“[I]t is a seed, a spiritual food, a magic word which opens a long-hidden, underground treasure-house.”

Here's the answer, if you give up.

Money

“‘Money?’ Pett, the student, became Pett, the financier, at the magic word.” —P.G. Wodehouse, Piccadilly Jim (1918)

Tu-Ku-Linga Mvula

Tu-ku-linga mvula: "we want rain" (an invocation by a Congo medicine man). From E. J. Glave's In Savage Africa: or, Six Years of Adventure in Congo-Land (1892).