h • "I am not the only one here who can use hokus-pokus, as you call it. You may be surprised to learn that you, Jack, are blessed with more than average hokus-pokus power." -- Willow Skye Robinson, Prince of New Avalon (2004) • "Like a sorcerer chanting an incantation I mumbled, Hokus-pokus, hokuspokus." -- Louis Paul Lochner, Always the Unexpected (1956) • "That was the old way, gossip, when Iniquity came in like Hokus-Pokus in a juggler's jerkin, with false skirts like the Knave of Clubs!" -- Alan Seymour Downer, The British Drama (1950) • "So the Magician took the little round box from his belt and the little white pebble from the little round box and he rubbed the pebble once crossways and twice crossways and said 'Hokus, pokus!" -- Johnny Gruelle, Orphan Annie Storybook (1989) Hola Noa Massa Origins: These words have been attributed to Albertus Magnus 9 (also known as Saint Albert the Great), the 1 th-century German philosopher, theologian, and scientist. Facts: Hola Noa Massa was found written in "an Elizabethan manuscript in the British Museum."40 This phrase is purportedly part of a chant to prolong orgasm. In Literature: • "'Hola Noa Massa!' spoke the strange booming voice. And back came a chorus intonation: 'Janna, janna! Hoa, hoa! Sabbat, sabbat! Molock, Lucifer, Asteroth!' Those, I fancied, were the names of pagan gods and devils. As the last syllable died away, something came into view beyond the window glass." -- Manly Wade Wellman, Fearful Rock and Other Precarious Locales (2001) Holes in the Rain Facts: This is a magic phrase for time travel in the novel The Wooden Sea (2001) by Jonathan Carroll: "Closing my eyes, I said, 'Holes in the rain.' The phrase that sent me back to my future." 9 Gerina Dunwich, Wicca Candle Magick (1989) 40 Migene Gonzalez-Wippler, The Complete Book of Spells, Ceremonies and Magic (1988)