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Abracadabra is of unknown origin, and is first attested in a second-century work of Serenus Sammonicus. [1]Some conjectural etymologies are: [2] from phrases in Hebrew that mean "I will create as I speak", [3] or Aramaic "I create like the word" (אברא כדברא), [4] to etymologies that point to similar words in Latin and Greek such as abraxas [5] or to its similarity to the first four ...
Magic words are phrases used in fantasy fiction or by stage magicians. Frequently such words are presented as being part of a divine, adamic, or other secret or empowered language. Certain comic book heroes use magic words to activate their powers. Magic words are also used as Easter eggs or cheats in computer games, other software, and ...
The weekly magazine Abracadabra was created by Charles Goodliffe Neale (1912 – December 26, 1980). [2] He was a magician and author. From the very first issue, Goodliffe (as he preferred to be called) gave the magazine the cover tag line of "The Only Magical Weekly in the World".
A part of "Abracadabra" uses the melody of "Spellbound" by Siouxsie and the Banshees. [5] Throughout the song, the term abracadabra is used to represent magic, and a "lady dressed in red" is mentioned, which Gaga described as a symbol of "everything that challenges you and makes you question whether you can overcome it." She further explained ...
In the original version, Ali Baba (Arabic: علي بابا ʿAlī Bābā) is a poor woodcutter and an honest person who discovers the secret treasure of a thieves' den, and enters with the magic phrase "open sesame". The thieves try to kill Ali Baba, and his rich and greedy brother Cassim tries to steal the treasure for himself, but Ali Baba ...
Certain comic book heroes use magic words to activate their powers. Examples of traditional magic words include Abracadabra, Alakazam, Hocus Pocus, Open Sesame and Sim Sala Bim. In Babylonian, incantations can be used in rituals to burn images of one's own enemies. An example would be found in the series of Mesopotamian incantations of Šurpu ...
Abrahadabra is a significant word within Thelema, a religion founded by Aleister Crowley early in the 20th century. Crowley first proposed this respelling of the word "Abracadabra" in January 1901 and included it in the central sacred text of Thelema, The Book of the Law, the manuscript of which was written in April 1904.
As a result, there is a long history of scholarly disagreement on the meaning of mantras and whether they are instruments of mind, as implied by the etymological origin of the word mantra. One school suggests mantras are mostly meaningless sound constructs, while the other holds them to be mostly meaningful linguistic instruments of mind. [5]