Sunday, March 8, 2009
Treguna Mekoides and Tracorum Satis Dee
This is a spell for animating objects, from the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). The spell conjures “substitutiary locomotion,” a “power that’s far beyond the wildest notion. It’s a weird so feared, yet wonderful to see” (Robert and Richard Sherman’s lyrics to “Substitutiary Locomotion”).
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once read a book, or was read to, with the magic word 'oog-lay-day-boo' which would dissapear a thing, if you believed it... to bring the thing back, say it backwards...don't know if i spelled that right...any recollection of that word or book?
The magic phrase you mentioned is likely an imitation of the French "où le début," loosely meaning "where it begins."
A similar chant, "O la o boo day boo," appears in the opera "Delusion of the Fury: A Ritual of Dream and Delusion" by Harry Partch.
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