W Woo Woo Woo Facts: Woo Woo Woo is the "magic sound" that professional magician Terry Lunceford suggests to his volunteers to utter during stage shows.12 Wooga-Wooga-Wooga Mystique: "The magical word is the chanted word," said the poet W.B. Yeats.1 The magical incantation wooga-wooga-wooga captures the spirit of a chanted ritual held around a bonfire.14 Meanings: • Crazy • Mumbo-jumbo • Spooky "It's not even spooky booga-wooga wooga. It's just everyday real." -- Talk- AboutRecovery.com (200 ) • Unscientific, superstitious "[H]ypnosis is still considered to be pretty wooga wooga by many people, even though it has research to back it up." -- Stephanie J. Buehler (2005) Facts: Susan Finger, an instructor at Carnegie Mellon University, recommends "Wooga wooga wooga" to be said when tossing an imaginary ball. "Wooga-wooga" is the flapping sound of papers being waved in the air.15 "Wooga-wooga" is an electric life energy that pulls one forward, like an invisible thread. Wavy Gravy, the founder of the original Hog Farm Commune in Tujunga, California, describes "some kind of spiritual woogawooga that I'm entitled to spend my days in quest of."16 "Wooga Wooga" is "a café in the astral dimension where Charlie Parker jams every Saturday night."17 Variations and Incantations: • Booga-wooga wooga -- TalkAboutRecovery.com (200 ) 12 As observed in his October 2005 appearance at Hollywood's Magic Castle 1 Quoted in The Life of W.B. Yeats by Terence Brown (1999) 14 Dave Smith (2002) 15 G.M. Ford, Slow Burn (1998) 16 Quoted in Interviews with Icons by Lisa Law (2000) 17 Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)