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• Go go go
"During the traditional sponge ball routine where the sponges vanish and
transport from one magician's hand to the other, or from the magician's
hand and into a spectator's hand, the volunteer simply says the magic
words, 'Go, go go!' to make the magic happen. The climax of the ['Go Go
Gone' sponge balls] effect is when the spectator opens his hand and discovers
that his 'Go' sponges have now transformed into the word 'Gone!'"
-- Illusion Warehouse, TrickSecrets.com (2005)
God Bless You
(see blessings)
In Literature:
• John-Roger, Loving Each Day (1989)
God Is Great
In Literature:
• "Ibrahim Pasha combed his long, cinder-gray beard with his fingers and
parted his darker moustache. He placed a bidi in his mouth, lit it, took a
deep puff, and muttered the magic words: 'God is great.'" -- Lee Siegel, Net
of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India (1991)
Gold
(see also fortune, money and treasure)
Gold. It was a magic word.
-- Catherine E. Chambers and Allan Eitzen, California Gold Rush
(1998)
Mystique: "Their great magician is Gold," wrote Richard Henry Savage.
"In power, in pleasing witchery of potent influence; insidious flattery of pleasure;
in remorseless persecution of the penniless, all wonders are its work.
Ariel, Mephisto, Moloch, thou, Gold! King Gold! and thy brother, Silver!"
(The Little Lady of Lagunitas [1892]).
In Literature:
• "'Gold!' And at that magic word all eyes were strained greedily forward."
-- Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! (1855)
• "Wiglaf had said the magic word: gold." -- Kate McMullan and Bill Basso,
Class Trip to the Cave of Doom (200 )