MAGIC WORDS • Abra Cadabra Candelabra -- Michael Valeur (2005) • Abra cadabra capoosh -- Natalie Babbitt (2005) • Abra-cadabra dev and chort -- James Mallory, Merlin: The Old Magic (1999) • Abracadabra dum dum dum "Here is the cloak: when you want to go traveling on it, say 'Abracadabra, dum, dum, dum'; when you want to come back again, say 'Abracadabra, tum tum ti.'" -- Maria Dinah Mulock Craik, The Little Lame Prince (1875) • Abra Cadabra Fiddle-de-fee -- Jenepher Lingelbach, Hands-On Nature (2000) • Abracadabra! Hocus pocus "'Abracadabra! Hocus pocus!' says the magician, and something happens. A pack of cards is turned into a pigeon." -- Joseph Hillis Miller, Others (2001) • Abracadabra, hocus pocus, alakazam "'Abracadabra, hocus pocus, alakazam,' said Kevin. 'And presto, this clump of dirt is now a diamond.' Kevin opened his palm to reveal a small blue diamond that sparkled coolly in the sun." -- Neal Shusterman, The Eyes of King Midas (1992) • Abracadabra, hocus-pocus, sim salabim, open sesame! -- Allan Pred, "Re-Presenting the Extended Moment of Danger: A Meditation on Hypermodernity, Identity and the Montage Form," Space and Social Theory: Interpreting Modernity and Postmodernity (1997) • Abracadabra Kazam -- Mike Thaler, The Teacher from the Black Lagoon (1989), in which the magic words are followed by a flash of light, a puff of smoke, and someone changing into a frog. "[A] once-and-for-all, abracadabra-kazam kind of . . . experience." -- Peter J. Gomes, Strength for the Journey (2004) • Abracadabra, Now you see it, now you don't -- Jodi Picoult, Keeping the Faith (1999) • Abracadabra! Oooga booga! -- David Brin, The Practice Effect (1984) • Abracadabra, please and thank you -- Laurell K. Hamilton, Bite (2004) • Abracadabra Pon This is the magic phrase of transformation that the character Chibi-Usa (also known as Rini) uses in the Sailor Moon manga stories (1992). • Abracadabra, presto -- John Altman, The Watchmen (2004)