G 0 • Go go go "During the traditional sponge ball routine where the sponges vanish and transport from one magician's hand to the other, or from the magician's hand and into a spectator's hand, the volunteer simply says the magic words, 'Go, go go!' to make the magic happen. The climax of the ['Go Go Gone' sponge balls] effect is when the spectator opens his hand and discovers that his 'Go' sponges have now transformed into the word 'Gone!'" -- Illusion Warehouse, TrickSecrets.com (2005) God Bless You (see blessings) In Literature: • John-Roger, Loving Each Day (1989) God Is Great In Literature: • "Ibrahim Pasha combed his long, cinder-gray beard with his fingers and parted his darker moustache. He placed a bidi in his mouth, lit it, took a deep puff, and muttered the magic words: 'God is great.'" -- Lee Siegel, Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India (1991) Gold (see also fortune, money and treasure) Gold. It was a magic word. -- Catherine E. Chambers and Allan Eitzen, California Gold Rush (1998) Mystique: "Their great magician is Gold," wrote Richard Henry Savage. "In power, in pleasing witchery of potent influence; insidious flattery of pleasure; in remorseless persecution of the penniless, all wonders are its work. Ariel, Mephisto, Moloch, thou, Gold! King Gold! and thy brother, Silver!" (The Little Lady of Lagunitas [1892]). In Literature: • "'Gold!' And at that magic word all eyes were strained greedily forward." -- Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! (1855) • "Wiglaf had said the magic word: gold." -- Kate McMullan and Bill Basso, Class Trip to the Cave of Doom (200 )