Your question on terms word have power in our mind know it or not , they own us often the wrong ones create a lot of assumptions or drastic unhealthy actions actions!!!
The expression began to be
used in relation to conjuring in the 1620s and, in 1634, a book entitled
'Hocus Pocus Junior - The Anatomy of Legerdemain' was printed. The
author isn't named but was later known just as Hocus Pocus after the book's
title.
Conjurers didn't limit
themselves to the phrase hocus pocus in their stage patter. In 1656 Thomas Ady,
published 'A Candle in the Dark'. In that he gives an example of a
longer string of the cod latin used by jugglers (as conjurers were then called):
The first [feature that juggling consists of] is profitably seen in our common Juglers, that go up and down to play their Tricks in Fayrs and Markets, I will speak of one man more excelling in that craft than others, that went about in King James his time, and long since, who called himself,
The Kings Majesties most excellent Hocus Pocus, and so was he 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 currently without discovery...
He was very good at and used to the full , thanks
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