24 MAGIC WORDS • One-ry two-ery ickery am -- Notes and Queries (1854) • One-ry, two-ery, tickery, seven, Hallibo, crackibo, ten and eleven, Spin, span, muskidan, Twiddle-um, twaddle-um, twenty-one -- Diana Hendry, Harvey Angell Beats Time (2000) Onni Swakey Mollie Pons Facts: Professional magician Steve Charney uses this magical phrase. Oocha Coocha Bing Bang Bam, Alakazy Alakazam Facts: This is an incantation for making a serpent hiccup in the novel The Key to the Land of Dogs by Gareth M. Wilson (2004). Bing bang bam is an expression of a quick sequence of events, sometimes followed by a boom to signify the culmination. Ooga-Booga (see also booga booga) Mystique: When intoned without mockery, the primitive syllables of oogabooga conjure the "primal oohs and ahs from cave men and women . . . in those early human settlements," or perhaps the mysterious, exotic powers of tribal elders. Meanings: • God; higher power "Great Ooga-Booga, can't you hear me talkin' to ya?" -- The Temptations, quoted in Miles to Go by Chris Murphy (2002) "[P]eople felt when they died their 'spirit' went to the great ooga booga in the sky . . ." -- SciForums.com (200 ) • Jungle native chant -- James Howard Kunstler, Geography Of Nowhere (1994) • Mumbo-jumbo "The stuff where you play the records backwards and it's got some sort of ooga-booga about the Devil on it." -- Joe R. Lansdale, The Drive-In (1988) 25 Helen Godgson and Patti Britton, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sensual Massage (200 )