MAGIC WORDS Anazapta Mystique: This musical word has an exotic ring to it, with a sizzling zap in the middle and a plosive ta to mark the impact at the end.164 Meanings: • Magic word -- Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 (1992) • Plea for health -- Rich Cline, theZreview.co.uk (2001) Origins: Anazapta has been traced back to Europe in the 1 00s, in talismanic parchments containing exotic-sounding names of God and guaranteeing longevity.165 Figure 15. The musical impact of anazapta. And a-One! And a-Two! And a-One, Two, Three! In Literature: "Out of nowhere, Mr. Bundy started reciting a magic spell. 'And a-one! And a-two! And a-one, two, three! Look who's back. Hooray! 164 "Plosives . . . involve a momentary stoppage of the air flow and a subsequent, slightly explosive, release" -- David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous (1996) 165 Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars (1992)