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Double Fuffle Guggle Truffle
Facts: This is a magic phrase for opening a locked door in Oral Storytelling
and Teaching Mathematics by Michael Schiro (2004).
Double Trouble
Mystique: This magic phrase recalls the hags' cauldron spell from Shakespeare's
Macbeth: "Double, double, toil and trouble; / Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."
Common Magician's Applications: Production, as in the "Double Your
Money" trick described by Cheryl Charming in Miss Charming's Book of Bar
Amusements: "[C]hant 'double trouble' three times . . . Rub your hands together.
Open your hand, and Wow! One bill turned into two bills."
Dove
Mystique: The dove is the classic magician's companion and a symbol of
love, communication, peace, purity, eternity, the spirit set free.
"Long before Christians adopted the dove as an emblem of spirit,
ancient people considered this bird a symbol of the transition from one state
of consciousness to another and the bringing of spirit down to earth. Sa
cred to the Great Mother, the dove represented peace, innocence, gentleness,
and chastity. . . . Homer said that both Aphrodite and Hera could transform
themselves into doves. The oldest oracle of Zeus was the Oracle at Dodona;
there, a dove lived in a special oracular tree and was said to speak with a human
voice."7
Facts: The DC Comics character named Dawn Granger (1988) uses the
magic word dove to transform into a heroine called Dove:
Dawn can only turn into Dove when she is in danger. At such
a time, all she has to do is speak the word "Dove," and she is
transformed into a magical being that is made up almost com
pletely of pure Order. As Dove, she is linked directly into the
Primal Source of Order. This gives her the ability to see the
underlying pattern in all situations, and to rapidly assimilate
that information, sort it, and make sense out of it. Because of
this, she seems to have lightning-fast reflexes, but that's not really
the case. Actually, she figures out what her opponent will
do before he does it, and reacts to it before his move begins.
7
D.J. Conway, Animal Magick (1995)