z 46 Zippity Doo Daa, Zippity Yeah Origins: A George Washington Dixon minstrel song entitled "Zip Coon" (18 4) featured this lyric: "Zip a duden duden duden zip a duden day." It was sung to an Irish or Scottish melody later rearranged as "Turkey in the Straw." 0 The words were adapted into lyrics for "Zip-a-dee Doo-Dah," a song in the Walt Disney film Song of the South (1946). Facts: Zippity doo daa, zippity yeah are magic words for reversing an effect in the Bewitched television series. Variations and Incantations: • Flip-a-dee-doodle, flip-a-dee-ay -- Jig Star, High School Soap Opera (2002) • Razzamatazz hocus pocus zippity-doo-dah -- Ntozake Shange, "Spell #7," Honey, Hush! (1998) • Zippity doo da -- Kenneth Wapnick, Absence from Felicity (1991) • Zippity doo-dah ding dong derry day -- Steven Curtis Lance, "Hosed," New Poems (2005) • Zippity doo dah, zippity aye -- Eric Hansen, Stranger in the Forest (2000) • Zippity doo dah, zippity day -- Loren W. Christensen, Skid Row Beat (1999) Zolda Pranken Kopeck Lum Facts: These are the magic words the character Uncle Arthur teaches Darrin Stephens in the television series Bewitched, when Darrin is convinced he's been turned into a Warlock.21 Zorami Zaitux Elastot Origins: Zorami Zaitux Elastot are antiquated magical words for instant success from an Egyptian book of magical talismans entitled Treasure of the Old Man of the Pyramids, "translated from the Language of the Magi" in the eighteenth century. 20 Larry Starr, American Popular Music (200 ) 21 EyeOnSoaps.com/whoiscrone.htm 22 Arthur Edward Waite, The Book of Ceremonial Magic (191 )