MAGIC WORDS a result of how magic language naturally evolves, magicians involuntarily resort to poetic means, just as poets involuntarily resort to magic means.28 Facts: Cushlamocree is a magic word from the comic strip "Barnaby" (19421952) by Crockett Johnson. 28 Lucian Blaga (1985), quoted in "Signs of Magic: On the Archetypal Roots of Culture" by Traian D. Stanciulescu (2004)