The Magician's Hidden Library Magic Words: A Dictionary

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d 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)
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