#Magic Words

[astra-ravana]

One Word Spells

Abracadabra: I create as I speak

Avadakedavra: I destroy as I speak

Uro: Burning

Adhuerte: Good luck

Mariquil: Calms the temper of an upset person

Univert: Faster transport

Absum: To make something be concealed from sight

Explico: To reveal something

Bavarignis: To strike up or continue a conversation

Visididen: Go unnoticed or invisible

Conturbo: To invoke confusion

Mutare: Transmutation

Taceo: To silence

Lapagna: To silence a bothersome person

Murusidium: Protects your home

Advoco: Summoning spell

Bellus: Glamour spell

Casso: Destruction spell

Cessabit: Calming spell

[chthonic-sorcery]

Goêteic Almanac: A 101 Guide on how to begin ancient sorcery

I've been gone a minute, been working on moving abroad and finishing up my book on ancient ritual magic- should be done by June/July 2025.

However, I've compiled the most important information on how to get started with sorcery all in a simple guide! A simple resource of everything we have covered on the patreon in the past 2 years, how to begin sorcery! We cover ritual robes, makeup, tools, spell ingredients, magical hours, moon phases, incantations, protective magic, simple ancient divination methods, and some secret names of the gods which have never been shared here before!

You can check it out on my patreon

[superbat-love]

Superman trying to defend Robin until Batman gave him The Look.

[misersdream]

is this anything

[danskjavlarna]

This is a Googlewhack.  The Aztec mantra "Icksa tonga feen" promises to keep one young forever.  Just because this information was published only in the Weekly World News (Jan. 10, 1995) doesn't mean it isn't true.

Zoomable image here.

Newsworthy: a collection of weird headlines and book titles.

[axiseart]

No.

[rainbowpopeworld]

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Reading through the initial outfit brought this outfit from Staged to mind:

[theshytmblr]

- catatan pendek -

Apakah manusia harus "pandai bicara" untuk mengucapkan 3 kata ajaib?

Meminta maaf sesaat setelah kita sadar telah berbuat salah. Bahkan ketika kita tidak salah pun, meminta maaf menjadi perbuatan yang amat mulia.

Berterima kasih ketika mendapat hal hal yang kita senangi.

Dan ucapkan tolong ketika kita membutuhkan bantuan.

Aku rasa tidak perlu menjadi profesional public speaker untuk menjadi manusia baik yang tak pernah lupa mengamalkan 3 kata ajaib.

[thehumaneditor]

I've studied the use of language all my life; one of my areas of special study has been the use of language to deceive while pretending to communicate, eg: ads. (Note: politicians also do this, as well as pretending to communicate while saying nothing, but I'll talk about that another time.

There are a number of tricks that ads use to fool people, many of which are different kinds of bad logic, which I'll talk about later. Another popular trick is to use specific kinds of words, of which there are two main types:

Technical jargon: scientific-sounding words that the average person almost certainly doesn't understand, but which therefore lend credibility to the rest of the ad because if it sounds scientific, it must be real, right?

"Magic" words (my term): words that stand out from the surrounding words, such that the average audience will not perceive the latter.

Tonight, I want to talk about one of the latter type. Many ads for supplements, beauty products, and non-prescription medical devices use the word "clinically." This word is usually followed by "tested" or "studied." They are very careful not to use the word "proven," because for 99% of these products, that's not true. Advertisers are allowed to deceive by implication, but it's illegal for them to lie outright. And that's how magic words work: in this example, when most people hear the word "clinically," their brain automatically fills in the word "proven," even though the ads very specifically don't use that word.

Next time you find yourself having to sit through ads, amuse yourself by listening to how they phrase things, and see if you can find other magic words.

[nichrome-media]

Witchcraft #2

Slice #339

[liure00]

【Meiko】Magic Words ~Would you marry me?~【VOCALOID Cover】

[slowandsweet]

Artist Julie Paschkis (who illustrated those wonderful picture-book biographies of Pablo Neruda and Maria Merian) conjures up the magic of words and their blessed bewilderment of meaning in The Wordy Book (public library), each page of which opens up a question — simple yet profound, quietly poetic — and leaves you to wander into your own answer inside a painting alive with words.

There is an Alice in Wonderland quality to the book: The questions play with the limits of logic (What tells me more, an IF or an OR?) and with the existential restlessness of childhood (When does there become here? When does then become now?); they invite the fundamental curiosity at the heart of compassion (Do you see what I see?) and emanate a radiant love of life... Source: The Marginalian by Maria Popova

[thegoodmorningman]

The Sun casts Continual Light on The Earth!!!

[misersdream]

doodles of dub

[inconveniently-discorporated]

Right. Who wants to talk about the magic words in episode 4?

So the magic words Aziraphale says before his trick are: banana, fish, gorilla, shoelace with dash of nutmeg.

Now, I'm assuming that it's meant to sound like gibberish, but why THESE words? Do they sound/look like something else while lip reading? Translate to something else? In German maybe?

Hmm. Probably not.

My first impression upon hearing these words was: banana, fish, gorilla all sound VERY familiar... Like when Crowley was talking about Armageddon in S1 about all the gorillas and stars crashing down and "WHAT ARE THEY PUTTING IN THE BANANAS THESE DAYS" (📌) and Aziraphale also makes a comment about dolphins being a type of fish.

But I don't recall there being anything about shoelaces or nutmeg in that dialogue. (Side note -- when Job mentions whales all I could think was "brain city, whales".) Nutmeg is mentioned once in the book:

Now for the 📌 -- I saw a reference somewhere to a manga called Banana Fish?

If you subscribe to the "spiked coffee" theory (I'm not sold on the idea myself), that's a VERY interesting note indeed. And only fitting that I would be reminded of Crowley's rant on gorillas questioning if their bananas were spiked. Could it... Could it be... ??

Perhaps the words mean nothing at all, but in my experience in S1 there was hardly a wasted line or name. All of the nuns' names meant some form of "talkative", for example. Again, it could just be words picked at random to sound silly.

But MAYBE it is a clue of some sort. Or at least a reference to something else.

Any thoughts?!

[drconcussion]

My friend & I just came up with the best fucking idea ever. You text your friend with the secret phrase “hype hoe” & she responds ASAP with all the reasons you’re a bad bitch to hype you up.

No need to explain why you need the confidence boost, no questions, no judgement. You just act as her Hype Hoe and hype that bitch up!