E Eagle Agle Oggle Ungle Facts: This is a magic phrase for materializing an eagle in Oral Storytelling and Teaching Mathematics by Michael Schiro (2004). Ecce Sum Simon Magus Meanings: • Behold, I am Simon the Magician Facts: Simon Magus was a Gnostic teacher from Samaria and prominent miracle worker during the rein of Claudius Caesar. He is mentioned in the New Testament's Book of Acts. Magus means "worker of magic." These magic words are used in "The Power of Simon Magus" Tar ot card routine by professional magician Peter Marucci.4 Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe (see also Fee Fie Foe Fum) Mystique: The incantation Eenie meenie minie moe puts a matter at hand into the hands of fate. The words have a spiritual, poetic quality. Poet Rodger Kamenetz recalls passing Allen Ginsberg "in the audience during a teaching by the Dalai Lama in New York. While others were dutifully chanting Tibetan syllables, Ginsberg was intoning 'eenie meenie miney mo.'" The phrase is closely associated with the action of counting. Historian Moustafa Gadalla notes that words accompanying an action are of tremendous significance: "The magic word, the incantation, actuates the power and endows the ritual acts with a magical religious effect." Meanings: • Counting -- Alan Cohen, A Deep Breath of Life (1996) • Guessing game "Why would he turn salvation into an eenie-meenie-minie-mo guessing game?" -- Bruce Bawer, Stealing Jesus (1998) • Luck of the draw "Looks like eenie, meenie, minie, moe to me." -- Michael Connelly, The Narrows (2004) 4 Oneline-Visions.com (2005) The Jew in the Lotus (1994) Egyptian Mystics: Seekers of the Way (200 )