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That phrase hocus-pocus started out as hocus-pocus dominocus, and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's Latin liturgy. So say the lexicologists.

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L. M. Boyd
Age: 79 †
Born: 1927
Born: June 9
Died: 2007
Died: January 22
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