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	Hocus-pocus
		In 1656 Thomas Ady, published his fearsomely entitled book 'A Candle in the Dark: or a treatise concerning the nature of witches and witchcraft: being advice to judges, sherrifs, justices of the peace and grand jury men, what to do, before they pass sentence on such as are arraigned for their lives, as witches'.
		It's likely that hocus pocus is one of the many phrases made from pairs of nonsense words that have been coined for no better reason than that people enjoy rhyming.
		Hocus is thought to be the source for the verb hoax.
	www.phrases.org.uk /meanings/hocus-pocus.html (601 words)

	'Hocus Pocus'
		To remain in Salem for eternity, the gals must reclaim their book of potions, concoct a magical brew of dead men's toes and witch spit, and summon a small child -- they want Dani -- and absorb her youthful juices, leaving her a pint-sized granny.
		"Hocus Pocus" is really two movies -- a sophomoric caper for teenage boys and a dark lark for fans of Disney farce, an abracadabra "Sister Act." Both of them are failures.
		"Hocus Pocus" is rated PG and is mildly suggestive and slightly scary.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/hocuspocuspgkempley_a0a39b.htm (578 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Hocus Pocus at Epinions.com
		Besides the book's intro, which explains the paragraphs formatting and tells of how the book was written by its author (Hartke), the voice belongs to the protagonist.
		The general tone of this book is that America's prime is past-that World War II was the country's "finale rack" (the final rack of explosives at a fireworks show).
		A key subplot to the book is the psychological effects of war on an individual-nothing new to the WWII veteran's work.
	www.epinions.com /content_95251762820 (686 words)

	'Hocus Pocus'
		Hocus Pocus" is made for people like the woman who sat next to me at last Sunday's preview screening.
		"Hocus Pocus" may not get your hand in a blur but its collection of one-liners and amusing situations could put you in a diverting spell.
		Midler is the best reason to watch "Hocus Pocus." As the lead Sanderson, she's the witchy center of the movie, with her Betty Boop lipstick design and that trademark, vamp-to-the-gallery, eye-batting shtick of hers.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/hocuspocuspghowe_a0afdc.htm (670 words)

	Hocus Pocus: Titania's Book of Spells \| Funny UK Comedy
		This book seems to concentrate on love spells, and spells for the family, which seems t suggest that this is another book aimed at a certain market, in this case it seems to be aimed at housewife's with an interest in new age or spell work.
		In conclusion this book is the same as all the rest, very little information given, no information to back up why spells or magic works, a little bit of superstition and folklore and superficial spells.
		Another beautiful book by Titania Hardie.She explains everything wonderfully and you just want to keep reading.The photographs capture the eye which makes you want to peak further ahead in the book.Even my ten year old son was interested in what the book was about.
	www.funny.co.uk /comedy/prod_0-1899988831-Hocus-Pocus-Titanias-Book-of-Spells.html (649 words)

	Hocus Pocus
		So broad are their performances that Hocus Pocus often feels like a high school theatrical production–and not a particularly good one at that.
		Hocus Pocus is a family film; this is easily the dirtiest word spoken in the entire movie).
		Hocus Pocus was reputed to have cost $28 million–high for a Disney production–and it makes sense when you realize the cat stand-ins alone (all eight of them) earned $200 a day!
	www.members.dca.net /dnb/reviews/hocuspocus.htm (694 words)

	Hocus Pocus: Titania's Book of Spells \| Funny UK Comedy
		Form: thin, but wide book, a good format for the many page-size photographs; plushy hardcover (don't drop drinks on this!); small widely spaced print, a new paragraph marked by a fl cat head rather than a new indented line, which may irritate readers.
		No history of witchcraft or other background info, but also no explanation of the mechanics of spellcasting (as given in "Spinning spells, weaving wonders" by Patricia Telesco), possibly because the author doesn't consciously apply them; the reader is told to assemble the ingredients and get in the right mood, and goes it blind from there.
		Many are disgustingly manipulative, reinforcing the stereotype of women/witches as pretty creatures full of wiles; this while the book so harps on purity of motive that I was relieved to read that the wish for a more beautiful garden is "unselfish".
	www.funny.co.uk /comedy/prod_0-1902757572-Hocus-Pocus-Titanias-Book-of-Spells.html (338 words)

	kwc blog: Book: Hocus Pocus
		Hocus Pocus made it into the queue because I've been meaning to read some more Vonnegut, and, besides,...
		Hocus Pocus made it into the queue because I've been meaning to read some more Vonnegut, and, besides, according to this test my book personality is Cat's Cradle.
		Hocus Pocus brings my own Vonnegut reading into more current times, with the Vietnam War legacy, the American prison system, race relations, infidelity, religion, and selling of America all entering Vonnegut's blender.
	kwc.org /blog/archives/2004/2004-11-21.book_hocus_pocus.html (594 words)

	Amazon.com: Hocus Pocus: Titania's Book of Spells: Books: Titania Hardie,Sara Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		What sets Hocus Pocus apart is how Titania Hardie has bundled her useful and effective spells with evocative photographs that make this book a work of art.
		The book is a delight to read and to look at as it has beautiful pictures and a lovely cover.
		This book is perfect for a beginner, like me. Titania gives you lists of items needed, practice techniques, and her spells are so easy to use.
	www.amazon.com /Hocus-Pocus-Titanias-Book-Spells/dp/1556704992 (1482 words)

	Hocus Pocus
		Hocus Pocus are a highly talented North-east band performing classic rock songs that we all know and love including AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath and many many more.
		We hope you enjoy the Hocus Pocus website and look forward to playing for you soon.
		Check out the Hocus Pocus photo-gallery from our previous shows - you might spot yourself - please send us your pictures from our gigs by e-mail and we'll try to include them on the site.
	www.hocus-pocus.org.uk (207 words)

	Hocus Pocus (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Another unusual element of style he uses in Hocus Pocus is to let numbers stand for themself e.g.
		Ironically, Eugene is ordered to be the warden of the prison, but then becomes an inmate, presumably via the same type of "hocus pocus" that led to his dismissal from his professorship.
		For reasons that are made clear early in the book, the main character was named after Eugene V. Debs, five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for President of the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hocus_Pocus_(novel) (774 words)

	Movie Review - Hocus Pocus
		Hocus Pocus is a spooky, spooky fantasy for family audiences.
		Once inside the witch's house, strange things begin to happen and the three young people inadvertently release the witches from their three-hundred-year sleep.
		Strange and wild antics ensue as the witches desperately seek the spell book.
	www.ahafilm.info /movies/moviereviews.phtml?fid=6167 (976 words)

	Hocus Pocus (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hocus Pocus is a 1990 novel by Kurt Vonnegut.
		Eugene is fired from his job as a college professor after having several of his witticisms surrepitiously recorded by the dimwitted daughter of a right-wing conservative commentator.
		Like almost all of Vonnegut's books, this is an account told in the past-tense by a character who shares his background with Vonnegut.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hocus_Pocus_(book) (774 words)

	Book Information: Hocus Pocus :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		Book Information: Hocus Pocus :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		[Hocus Pocus] is the most richly detailed and textured of Mr.Vonnegut's renderings of this particular planet.
		Some readers may miss the wilder leaps of imagination and the whimsy, but what is gained is a muscular dignity of voice that only rarely is tendentious.
	www.iblist.com /book3189.htm (153 words)

	Foster on Film - Witchcraft: Hocus Pocus
		With the aid of his obnoxious little sister (a prepubescent Thora Birch), and a love interest who's only along for the ride, he must stop the witches from sucking the life from all the children of the town.
		Witches, ghosts, a zombie, an enchanted cat, a spell book, and several magic-themed songs, all delivered with a light tone, makes Hocus Pocus the perfect family Halloween film.
		They sunk the feature during its theatrical run, but now that you are likely only to see Hocus Pocus at home, there's a way around them.
	www.fosteronfilm.com /horror/witches/hocuspocus.htm (619 words)

	Hocus Pocus (novel) Summary
		He is himself the subject of a number of book...
		Described as "a word cartoonist, a wise guy, a true subversive," by Valerie Sayers in the New York Times, Kurt Vonnegut is lauded as one of America's most respected novelists, "recognized as a thoughtful social critic who ponders the impact of technology...
		Although his place of importance in serious American fiction is now secure, his relationship to the genre that nurtured him has become increasingly tenuous.
	www.bookrags.com /Hocus_Pocus_(novel) (367 words)

	eBay - hocus pocus book, Fiction Books, Antiquarian Collectible items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		KURT VONNEGUT Hocus Pocus 1st Ed.
		Hocus Pocus by Sara Morris, Titania Hardie (1996)
		HOCUS AND POCUS AT THE CIRCUS 1983 MANUSHKIN
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=hocus+pocus+book&... (289 words)

	Hocus-Pocus
		But in ''The Spirit Cabinet,'' his eighth book, the Canadian novelist Paul Quarrington takes hold of these flamboyant only-in-Americans and bends them to his own even stranger purposes.
		Miserable in his overpopulated provincial German family, Jurgen seeks refuge in books that describe tricks like the Improved French Vanish and the Sympathetic Cut and Restoration.
		Rudolfo survives years in his mother's opium den, stints in reform school and a small-time circus -- not to mention a short career masquerading as a blind beggar in the company of Samson, who's flened with shoe polish and tricked out with socks hanging from his ears to resemble a dopey Seeing Eye dog.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/04/30/reviews/000430.30schuest.html (983 words)

	Weird Words: Hocus-pocus
		Thomas Ady wrote in his book of 1655, A Candle in the Dark; or, a Treatise Concerning the Nature of Witches and Witchcraft: “I will speak of one man...
		who called himself, The Kings Majesties most excellent Hocus Pocus, and so was called, because that at the playing of every Trick, he used to say, Hocus pocus, tontus talontus, vade celeriter jubeo, a dark composure of words, to blinde the eyes of the beholders, to make his Trick pass the more currantly without discovery”.
		Many people today believe that the phrase originated in a corrupted form of the words of the consecration of the host in the old Latin mass: hoc est (enim) corpus (meum), “this is my body”, an idea that was first aired by John Tillotson, who was Archbishop of Canterbury between 1691 and 1694.
	www.worldwidewords.org /weirdwords/ww-hoc1.htm (320 words)

	Book of Shadows 1
		Now a classic in the field, used by students of the Golden Dawn as well as by those who want to understand Crowley's tarot.
		This is the definitive study of the Egyptian tarot and is used as a key to all Western mystery disciplines.
		This issue of The Equinox is a companion volume to The Holy Books of Thelema.
	www.onewitch.com /shopping/bookofshadow1.html (220 words)

	Amazon.com: Hocus Pocus: Books: Kurt Vonnegut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Hocus Pocus is one of those books I go back to ever couple of years and re-read...I like it that much.
		Certainly, Vonnegut's sharp tongue is present, ripping up academia (and their captive students) as we explore the benefits of prisons run by outsourced Japanese guards, the equivalency of loving and killing, television talk-shows, the mindless drive to wealth normally thought of as the American dream, and, yes, the whole Vietnam experience with his typical precision.
		"Hocus Pocus" is an angry book not leavened with the humor and sense of wonder that made his earlier works so delightful.
	www.amazon.com /Hocus-Pocus-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/0425161293 (1537 words)

	Philly Book Club
		Oh, and since this is the Philly Book Club, it stands to reason that you should be located in, or around Philadelphia so you can easily attend the discussions.
		I am 50 pages from the end of the book and can barely even do my job without thinking of how the damn thing is going to end.
		Her meeting for the book is on February 4th and she wants to provide her group with a framework for their meeting.
	www.phillybookclub.org (1976 words)

	Meir Yedid Magic - Books
		This is the paperback edition of the David Blaine biography/magic book that was on the New York Times bestseller list.
		An inspiring book by John Booth that is full of wonderful stories and little known facts about some of the most popular magicians of our time.
		In chapter after chapter, Booth tells what he has seen and experienced through most of the 20th century, after all, he has lived through most of it and has met and befriended many of the greats in magic during that time.
	www.mymagic.com /books.htm (409 words)

	Hocus Pocus, Hide Your Applications, Anti Boss Style
		Hocus Pocus is small and free program which helps you to hide and show your running applications by simple shortcuts and user friendly interface.
		So you can use this Hocus Pocus features while Hocus Pocus is not active or hidden.
		Hocus Pocus is completely free but if you want to help / donate you can order a book from Amazon for me.
	ferruh.mavituna.com /hocus-pocus (1230 words)

	Hocus Pocus
		Her sister and aunt would like to help her and her aunt finds an old spell book and concocts a spell that turns Amanda’s life upside down.
		Now, she’s says everything that pops into her mouth, everyone is noticing her, her sister and aunt have changed her whole wardrobe and her boss is wondering how the heck he’ll keep his hands off her.
		The reader will be hooked by the very first paragraph and will be taken on a roller coaster ride of a read and will not want to be interrupted until the last word.
	www.loveromances.com /hocuspocus_valerie.html (277 words)

	Hocus Pocus
		To order call Hocus Pocus at (800) 407-4040 OR [Click Here] to visit interactive store.
		A wonderful history and book of facts about large scale magic.
		Hocus Pocus is honored that John Calvert has selected us to feature his Spirit Cabinet!
	www.hocus-pocus.com /catalog/category0010.html (820 words)

	Hocus Pocus: Harry Potter Website - Profile
		I even said the book is only for "her" type of person.
		That was until I was really bored the next day and saw the book on her desk.
		She kicked me out but I ignored her and asked if the next book was out yet.
	dexter.parsons.edu /~ejuan/harrypotter/hp-profile.html (728 words)

	HOCUS-POCUS ACCOUNTING
		The seller may be able to book revenue even though nothing has been exchanged physically.
		Use the Internet and other sources of information (such as newspapers, phone books and industry or trade publications) to search for information about key members of management and the company.
		Shipping after a quarter ends, but keeping the books open so revenue is recorded in that quarter.
	www.aicpa.org /pubs/jofa/oct1999/carmich.html (2273 words)

	Hocus Pocus: Titania's Book of Spells Product Reviews and Price Comparison - Interactive Reviews
		As I have read several books on Witchcraft/Wicca, the 1st thing I looked at (after the cover of course) was the love spell(s).
		Comments: This was my 1st book on magick, though not my introduction.
		It is a wonderful book however before starting on these spells, read a little more about wicca, Titania's book 'Enchanted' and 'Teenwitch' and 'To ride a silver broomstick' by Silver Ravenwolf are wonderful starters!!
	www.interactivereviews.com /large/1556704992 (440 words)

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