MAGIC WORDS
• Abra-Cadaver
"He just waved his hands over the body three times while chanting the
magic words: Abra-Cadaver." -- National Lampoon (2002)
In an episode of the cartoon series Powerpuff Girls (1998), magician Al
Lusion returns from the dead as the evil magical zombie Abracadaver.
• Abra-Ca-Dazzle
-- Professional magician Larry White (1982)
•Abracadebra
-- Professional magician Steve Charney, Hocus Jokus: 50 Funny Magic Tricks
Complete with Jokes (200 )
• Abracadiddle
-- Professional magician Nicholas J. Johnson (200 )
• Abracadoody
-- Professional magician Steve Charney, Hocus Jokus: 50 Funny Magic Tricks
Complete with Jokes (200 )
• Abra-ca-pocus
This magic word for transformation is from the Bugs Bunny cartoon
"Transylvania 6-5000" (196 ).
• Abracapocus
-- Professional magician Steve Charney, Hocus Jokus: 50 Funny Magic Tricks
Complete with Jokes (200 )
• Abra-Ca-Whoops
-- Professional magician John Pizzi (1982)
• Abracazebra
-- Professional magician Steve Charney, Hocus Jokus: 50 Funny Magic Tricks
Complete with Jokes (200 )
• AbraCowDabra
This is the title of an art installation by Julie Alexander for the Texas
Children's Cancer Center: "This is sheer magic! You never know what
this clever bovine will pull out of its hat. She wears a cape bearing the
magic incantation -- AbraCowDabra! The viewer discovers familiar magical
transformations -- a rabbit in a hat, doves flying from a cap, card tricks,
knotted scarves, and a flower surprise. But who is the magician here? The
rabbit carries the magic wand. Doves pull scarves from one pocket and
flowers from another Is the magician the big purple cow dressed in formal
attire and magic cape, or could it be the rabbit, or the doves? The real
magic is in the eyes of the beholder." -- Houston.cowparade.net (2001)
• Abra Ca Drab Ra
-- Barbara LaBarbera (200 )
• Abrahadabra
This is the spelling coined by occult philosopher Aleister Crowley. "[Abrahadabra]
means by translation Abraha Deber, the Voice of the Chief Seer"
(Israel Regardie, 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley [1986]).