Abracadabra is an incantation used as a magic word in stage magic tricks, and historically was believed to have healing powers when inscribed on an amulet.

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

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.

After Phoebe recites an incantation from the book, the three sisters each receive a magical power and discover their destiny as The Charmed Ones – the most powerful good witches the world has ever known.

After Phoebe recites an incantation from the book, the three sisters each receive a magical power and discover their destiny as The Charmed Ones – the most powerful good witches the world has ever known.

After Phoebe recites an incantation from the book, Prue and her sisters each receive a magical power and discover their destiny as The Charmed Ones – the most powerful good witches the world has ever known.

The story involves an extensive description of an ingenious code based on a Buddhist incantation known as the " nenbutsu " as well as Japanese-language Braille.

The third was mystically, most notably by using the incantation known as the Montesi Formula ( after the monk who first realized its significance ).

However, unlike in the novel, Nessa has had no instruction in sorcery whatsoever, and thus ends up mispronouncing the words in the incantation.

The title of the record is a quote from " Litany against fear ", a fictional incantation from Dune, the science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert.

* Yiu Mo Gwai Gwaai Fai Di Zao – The main good incantation of the series, this spell is used most often by Uncle.

Dimitrie Cantemir mentions " Doina " in his " Descriptio Moldaviae " among a series of old pre-Christian ( Dacian ) deities, persistent in popular oral tradition, noticing that " Doina, Doina " is a starting phrase incantation in many folk songs.

Unlike the previous series where Sabrina made magic with a wave of her hand and an incantation, here she uses a wand to cast spells.

But the most notable thing about the incantation of these ex-liberals was that the one-time shibboleth of socialism was conspicuously absent.

More likely, you simply told yourself, as you handed us the book, that it mattered little what we incanted providing we underwent the discipline of incantation.

Other Roman emperors, including Geta and Alexander Severus, were followers of the medical teachings of Serenus Sammonicus and may have used the incantation as well.

On his website, Brooks states that his potential followers must first prepare by combining the junk food diet with the meditative incantation of five magic " fifth-dimensional " words which appear on his website, some of which are words from Kundalini yoga.

The Persians found the Chaldeans masters of reading and writing, and especially versed in all forms of incantation, in sorcery, witchcraft, and the magical arts.

The recorded incantation unleashes an evil force which kills and later possesses the body of Linda.

Annie chants an incantation that sends the evil force back to where it came from.

The incantation opens up a whirling temporal portal which not only draws in the evil force, but nearby trees, the Oldsmobile, and Ash himself.

Lugh obtained the Spear of Assal ( Ir: Gae Assail ) as an éric imposed on the children of Tuirill Piccreo ( or Biccreo ), according to the short account in Lebor Gabála Érenn ( Poem LXV, ¶ 319 ) which adds that the incantation " Ibar ( Yew )" made the cast always hit its mark, and " Athibar ( Re-Yew )" caused the spear to return.

) Monsters also play a more prominent role with east Asian origins of magical incantation, outlandish sorcery and manifesting principle in the Marvel Universe.

Ralston in his Songs of the Russian People gives the form of incantation still familiar in Russia.

Jewish magical papyri were inscriptions on amulets, ostraca and incantation bowls used in Jewish magical practices against shedim and other unclean spirits.

These offerings were often of a green twig, accompanied by a fitting incantation.

It bore only the inscription of the incantation Sauron spoke when he made it, and even that was invisible unless the ring was heated.

The Idisi mentioned in the incantation are generally considered to be valkyries.

Hilda R. Davidson compares the incantation to the Old English Wið færstice charm, and theorizes a similar role for them both.