o • Nonsense -- Orson Scott Card, The Memory of Earth (1992) • Occult; "otherworldly phenomena" -- Bernie Brillstein, Where Did I Go Right? (1999) • Password "After two rings, a voice spoke from the tiny handset. 'Ooga-booga?' 'Boola- boola,' Tollhouse responded. 'Hubba-hubba!' came the gratified reply." -- Harry Beard, The Dick Cheney Code: A Parody (2004) • Primitivism -- Rick Steves, Rick Steves' London 2004 (200 ) • Ritual -- Alexandra Robbins, Secrets of the Tomb (200 ) • Spirituality "[There is] a spiritual component -- what I sometimes laughingly refer to as ooga-booga moments." -- Ronna Lichtenberg, Pitch Like a Girl (2005) • Spooky "In desperation, soaps have started adding a lot of ooga-booga ghost storylines with voodoo, witchcraft, and, in the case of one, a Chucky-style creepy doll that comes to life." -- Celia Rivenbark, We're Just Like You, Only Prettier (2004) • Voodoo -- Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988) "There were zombies in the building. Not ooga-booga magic-type zombies, but near enough." -- Richard Fawkes, Nature of the Beast (2004) • Witchdoctor, head honcho "Seems the Lord High Ooga-Booga wants to see you face-to-face 'fore he seals the deal." -- Tom Clancy, Hidden Agendas (1999) "[H]e was like a guru, or a witch doctor, or some kind of far-out oogabooga man . . ." -- Frank E. Peretti, This Present Darkness (1986) Facts: "In the movie Freaks [19 2], by Tod Browning, the freaks dance around a woman they've horribly mutilated, chanting, 'One of us, one of us, ooga-booga, one of us.'" Variations and Incantations: • Ooga-booga looga-booga "He wanted to run for his room the way he used to do when he was little, jabbering nonsense words -- 'Ooga-booga looga-booga' had been a favorite -- while he pulled on his clothes and rubbed himself to get warm." -- Orson Scott Card, The Memory of Earth (1992) • Ugah bugah hoogaloo ugh ugh -- C. Richard King & Charles Springwood, Beyond the Cheers: Race as Spectacle in College Sport (2001) 26 John Vernon, A Book of Reasons (1999)