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Make It So
In Literature:
• "I became Captain Picard on Star Trek, uttering the most magical of words:
Make it so." -- Trish MacGregor, The Everything Love Spells Mini Book (2002)
Mambo Jambo
(see mumbo jumbo)
Meanings:
• Greeting similar to "What's happening?"
-- Stephen F. Soitos, The Blues Detective (1996)
Origins: Mambo jambo is a Swahili phrase.18
Marathon
Origins: Marathon is the name of a Greek town, made famous by the legend
of the hero Pheidippides.
In Literature:
• "Marathon became a magic word at Athens. The Athenian people in
succeeding ages always looked back upon this day [when the Persians departed]
as the most glorious in their annals, and never tired of hearing its
praises sounded by their orators and poets." -- William Smith, A Smaller
History of Greece (1892)
Matba
Meanings:
• "Bring forth," "let it be forthcoming"
-- S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers, The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage,
Book III (translated 1898)
• Coin
-- Raphael Patai, Jewish Alchemists (1994)
18 Stephen F. Soitos, The Blues Detective (1996)