But this extremely ingenious theory would at most explain only the mystic word Abracadabra, whose connection with Abrasax is by no means certain.

The story is about Jacques, a 40-year old citizen of Brussels, who meets the fakir Abracadabra who, before dying, gives him a special power.

Abracadabra is an incantation used by stage magicians, and formerly in Gnosticism and ancient Roman medicine.

He later wrote an article describing the method used in Abracadabra and continued to perform the effect until 2000 with the Theatre of The Damned the specialist stage manager was circus artiste Tony Hickson who is now an actor.

* Abracadabra, an incantation

* Abracadabra – prototypical magic word used by magicians.

* Goodliffe's Abracadabra ( known by magicians as " Abra "), a weekly magic magazine that closed in 2009

At other times they made use of magic words, such as " Abracadabra " or " sator arepo tenet opera rotas ", the latter of which spells the same when read front-to-back or back-to-front.

* Goodliffe's Abracadabra, a weekly magic magazine that closed in 2009

The surviving work, De medicina praecepta, in 1115 hexameters, contains a number of popular remedies, borrowed from Pliny and Dioscorides, and various magic formulae, amongst others the famous Abracadabra, as a cure for fever and ague.

The word may be related to Abracadabra, although other explanations exist.

In The Book of the Law and The Vision and the Voice, the Aramaic magical formula Abracadabra was changed to Abrahadabra, which he called the new formula of the Aeon of Horus.

In 1992 he was invited by Scottish vocalist Robbie Kelman to co-write with him the soundtrack for the film Abracadabra, directed by Harry Cleven.

In September 2009, Kanan starred in Indie film " Abracadabra ", which was directed by Julie Pacino ( Al Pacino's daughter ) and was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.

Some of their famous recordings include Abracadabra, Ni Tú Ni Nadie ,( which was entered for the Spanish heats of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1985 and later covered by the Mexican group Mœnia in 2004 and by the Puerto Rican band Circo in 2005 ) and ¿ A quién le importa?

The Steve Miller Band have a hit with Abracadabra.

The 22nd Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 23, 2002 at the Abracadabra Theater at Magicopolis in Santa Monica, California, to recognize the worst the movie industry had to offer in 2001.

This includes the satirical Picnic of Love album, and also covers of songs completely different from their style including " Can't Touch This ", " Stayin ' Alive ", " Escape ", " The Theme From Three's Company ", " You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side ", " Hungry Hungry Hippos ", and " Just the Two of Us ", as well as their karaoke rendition of the Steve Miller Band song " Abracadabra " ( intended to be a " cover " of " Sabbra Cadabra ").

He penned " Giving Up " for Gladys Knight & The Pips, ( later a hit for Donny Hathaway ), " The Sweetest Thing This Side of Heaven " for Chris Bartley, " When You're Young and in Love " for Ruby and the Romantics, " Right on the Tip of My Tongue " for Brenda & The Tabulations, " Baby I'm Yours " for Barbara Lewis, " Getting Mighty Crowded " for Betty Everett, " Abracadabra " for Erma Franklin, " You're Gonna Make Me Love You " for Sandi Sheldon and " I Get the Sweetest Feeling " for Jackie Wilson.

Kas promotion has included a landmark 24 Horas Kas campaign in the mid-1990s that included a catchy jingle based on the song " Dame Mas " by Alex de la Nuez a cover of the Steve Miller Band's song Give It Up from 1982 album Abracadabra.

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The group moved to the EMI label ( and MCA in North America ), where they recorded the 1991 LP Abracadabra.

Sales were disappointing, however, and in 1982 he returned to the pop formula with another hit album, Abracadabra.

Xuxa e os Duendes 2 ( Xuxa and the Elves – In the Way of the Fairies ) in 2002, Xuxa Abracadabra in 2004, Xuxa e o Mistério da Cidade Perdida in 2004, and Xuxinha e Guto: Contra os Monstros do Espaço ( Xuxinha and Guto Against the Monsters of the Galaxy ) in 2005.

1982's Abracadabra album gave Steve Miller his third Number One success with the title track.

* Harbincadabra, brainwaves and brainstorms of Robert Harbin N. Williams: From the pages of Abracadabra, 1947-1965, R. Harbin

She also wrote a play Abracadabra and contributed original material to the many revues in which she performed.

Crowley replaced the C in Abracadabra with an H, which the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in their Neophyte ritual linked with Breath and Life as well as with the god Horus.

The word is now commonly used as an incantation by stage magicians.

The incantation " Avada Kedavra " is known as the Killing Curse in the " Harry Potter " novel series.

In the Sumerian epic entitled Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, in a speech of Enmerkar, an incantation is pronounced that has a mythical introduction.

When language is used, prayer may take the form of a hymn, incantation, formal creed, or a spontaneous utterance in the praying person.

Often the vocal accompaniment is overshadowed by the drumming and instruments, reinforcing that the vocal aspect of the music is more for incantation rather than aesthetics.

Magic is the art of producing a desired effect or result through the use of incantation, ceremony, ritual, the casting of spells or various other techniques that presumably assure human control of supernatural agencies or the forces of nature.

Hocus is a shortening of the magic incantation hocus pocus, which in turn is a contraction of the phrase Hocus pocus, tontus talontus, vade celeriter jubeo, mentioned in Thomas Ady's 1656 book A candle in the dark, or a treatise on the nature of witches and witchcraft.

The Not-to-Be-Named-One, not being named, is difficult to identify ; a similar phrase, translated into Latin as the Magnum Innominandum, appears in a list in " The Whisperer in Darkness " and was included in a scrap of incantation that Lovecraft wrote for Robert Bloch's " The Shambler from the Stars ".

In Plato, he is mentioned as skilled in the arts of incantation.

The Wizard's incantation while performing magic is " Horse enchiladas, ho-ho!

She is often spoken of as " the great physician ," and accordingly plays a specially prominent role in incantations and incantation rituals intended to relieve those suffering from disease.

Because Makeatutara made mistakes in the incantation, Māui was fated to die and thus humankind is mortal.

Mākutu is a New Zealand Māori word meaning witchcraft, sorcery, to bewitch ; also a spell or incantation.

1895 ), in which the prominent ethnologist is seen performing an incantation in a Zuñi pueblo ; Professor Henry A. Rowland ( 1897 ), a brilliant scientist whose study of spectroscopy revolutionized his field ; Antiquated Music ( 1900 ), in which Mrs. William D. Frishmuth is shown seated amidst her collection of musical instruments ; and The Concert Singer ( 1890 – 92 ), for which Eakins asked Weda Cook to sing " O rest in the Lord ", so that he could study the muscles of her throat and mouth.

Laski claims that Part I is “ admirable propaganda for our ideas ” but that Part II falls short: “ But having, very ably, depicted a disease, Mr Orwell does what so many well-meaning people do: needing a remedy ( he knows it is socialism ), he offers an incantation instead.

47, a popular work for cello and orchestra ( its subtitle is " Adagio on Hebrew Melodies for Violoncello and Orchestra "); the principal such melody is the Kol Nidre incantation from the Jewish Yom Kippur service, which gives the piece its name.

). It is also common to drink Queimada, a beverage resulting from setting alight Galician grappa mixed with sugar, coffee beans and pieces of fruit, which is prepared while chanting an incantation against evil spirits.

It is placed at the beginning of most Hindu texts as a sacred incantation to be intoned at the beginning and end of a reading of the Vedas or prior to any prayer or mantra.