MAGIC WORDS
Turius Und Shurius Inturius
Origins: This phrase originated in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in the late
sixteenth century.
Facts: This magic phrase figured into the witchcraft trials of the 1700s. In
Amsterdam "a crazy girl confessed that she could cause sterility in cattle, and
bewitch pigs and poultry by merely repeating the magic words Turius und
Shurius Inturius! She was hanged and burned." 0
Common Magician's Applications: Enchanting animals.
In Literature:
• Andrew Tobias, Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
(1995)
Twinkle Twankle Twinkle
Facts: This is a magic phrase used in conjunction with clapping three times
for materializing a halo of stars, allowing one to see in the dark in Oral Storytelling
and Teaching Mathematics by Michael Schiro (2004).
0 Charles Mackay, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of
Crowds (1841)