MAGIC WORDS Common Magician's Applications: Vanishing, triggering. Variations and Incantations: • Ka Zam "When he tried the words 'Ka Zam.' an eagle appeared!" -- Marlene Karkoska, "The Knight and the Wizard" (2005) • Kazaam Kazaam is "a made-up interjection" that "has meaning only within itself." -- Raymond J. Corsini, Dictionary of Psychology (2002) • Kazam kazoo "[A]ll of a sudden, the carrot he held in his hand turned -- kazam! kazoo! -- into a squawking, and no doubt very shocked, little parrot." -- Tim Kennemore, Circle of Doom (2001) • Kazzam -- Thomas Blood, Madame Secretary (1997) "Miss Sorrel picks up silver-topped ebony cane, bangs it three times on floor and kazzam! I'm a frog." -- Nicky Singer, Feather Boy (2001) In Literature: • "'I think I would prefer a bit of magical assistance.' 'I'm not very good at it,' said Rincewind. 'Never got the hang of it, see, it's more than just point a finger at it and saying 'Kazam -- '' There was a sound like a thick bolt of octarine lightning zapping into a heavy rock slab and smashing it into a thousand bits of spitting, white-hot shrapnel, and no wonder." -- Terry Pratchett, Sourcery (2001) • "One day, out of nowhere, he was gone! Kazam!" -- Dorothea Benton Frank, Isle of Palms (2004) • "When the moon and the stars arrived to execute their mother [goddess Coatlicue], kazam! The sun jumped out of her womb (don't ask me how) and cut his sister the moon in two pieces." -- Eryk Hanut, The Road to Guadalupe: A Modern Pilgrimage to the Virgin of the Americas (2001) • "[K]azam, poof, it bounces back to him." -- Steve Martini, The Arraignment (200 ) • "With a 'Kazam!' Nina turns herself into a monkey." -- Scholastic ETV Consortium, "The Wild World: Nina's Strange Adventure" (2001) • "'Do you have glasses?' 'kazam!' Michael pulled two paper cups out of his pockets." -- Joyce Faulkner, Losing Patience (2004) • "She steps into blue jeans, throws on this big white billowy blouse, slips on some shoes, and leaves the room. Kazam, like that -- I can't see where she's going, and her other rooms barely exist to me. She just leaves. I'm left." -- William Tester, Head: Stories (2000)