h Variations and Incantations: • Bogus-pocus -- Jonathan Kellerman, The Conspiracy Club (200 ) • By hocus or by pocus -- John H. Ritter, The Boy Who Saved Baseball (200 ) • Hocky, pocky, dominocky -- American Folklore Society, The Journal of American Folklore (1918) • Hocum pocus "[B]ringing in an endless parade of preachers with their eternal prayers and priests with their hocum pocus incantations . . ." -- Orson Scott Card, Prentice Alvin (1989) • Hocum Pokum "Hocum, Pokum, France and Spain / Nine times round the world and back again." -- From an early medieval folk play, quoted in Nowhere in America by Hal Rammel (1990) • Hocus Crocus, Esquilocus -- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (19 9) • Hocus Focus Recommended for use with Chuck Leach's "Eclipse Wallet" illusion. • Hocuspocus "The Devil had always some new hocuspocus to make some little word pop out of their mouths." -- Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology Volume II (188 ) "The hocuspocus position . . ." -- R. Burling. "Cognition and Componential Alalysis: God's Truth or Hocuspocus" (1964), quoted in Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics by Hadumod Bussmann (1996) • Hocuspocus minimocus. Abracadabra. Eins-zwei-drei! "Magic incantations. Lem's step-grandmother mumbling as she circumcised a fresh loaf of rye bread or pulled a loose tooth from his mouth: 'Hocuspocus minimocus. Abracadabra. Eins-zwei-drei!'" -- Peter Spielberg, Hearsay (1992) • Hocus pocus abracadabra alakazam "I'd been coveting from afar this cool wooden hanging with three levels that say 'Hocus Pocus, Abracadabra, Alakazam' -- because I heart the magic." -- G. Bond, "Shaken & Stirred" (2004) • Hocus Pocus Alimagocus Spoken by a magician named Waldo the Magnificent to bring a mannequin to life in the 1980s television series "Today's Special." • Hocus pocus alacazam "[The Great Pepperoni] announces he will levitate him, says the magic words ('Hocus pocus alacazam. You eat salami, I'll take the ham.'), the other levitates horizontally under his blanket. A clown whips off the cover. He's been holding a pair of boots out horizontally from under a blanket." -- Stefan Brecht, Bread and Puppet Theatre (1988)