The Etymology of 'Abracadabra'

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[TheNugettinage]

The magic word "hocus pocus" also has an interesting etymology, and even one that is partially relevant to the current events. After the Bubonic Plague ravaged Europe, one of the effects it had was leave many a local priest dead. At the time when this happened, it was still common for churches to deliver their masses in Latin. The churches were in a hurry to get new priests to all the churches that had lost one, and quality standards and training slipped: a lot of the new priests had no training at all, and could not speak Latin. Instead they tried to copy what they had heard the priests say when they delivered their sermons. A common phrase in those sermons would be "Hoc est corpus meum", "this is my body", which these untrained priests turned to "hocus pocus".

[Ivnge]

Why is this so well made?? Abracadabra

[tuckersanford]

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[theonewhosknocked]

Eight new videos in one month? This is impossible

[refaeleranskira]

it's like saying psychopath doesn't come from the world psychology. The kabala( jewish mysticism explains it throughly) it's Aramaic... which is old version of hebrew abra=Bara => CREATE . ke debra= (d.b.r is the root of speak ; disbur is speak; dibra is holy command. In the Bible ..I m not religious in any way!!...but by the story . When Moses came down of mount sinai with the 10 commandments in the biblical hebre, itt was wrote... 10 dibrot. 1 Debra. (We pronounce b as v yet written as B. .... so saying it was refuted... is a bit ... uneducated of your side. Do your home work so you don't spread false information