Abracadabra is a word used as an incantation, considered by some to be the phrase that is pronounced most universally in other languages without translation. The word is now commonly used as an incantation by stage magicians. In ancient times, however, it was taken much more seriously as an incantation to be used as a cure against fevers and inflammations. The first known mention was in De Medicina Praecepta by Serenus Sammonicus, physician to the Roman emperor Caracalla, who prescribed that the sufferer from the disease wear an amulet containing ...

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• Abracadabra - Etymology
• Abracadabra - The curse and the pestilence
• Abracadabra - Father, Son, Holy Spirit
• Abracadabra - Disappear like this word
• Abracadabra - Abraxas
• Abracadabra - Thelema
• Abracadabra - Avada Kedavra in Harry Potter

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Theories about the source of the word are:- Abracadabra - I create as I speak. A possible source is Aramaic: אברא כדברא avra kehdabra which means "I will create as I speak". Abracadabra - The curse and the pestilence. There is the view that Abracadabra derives from the Hebrew, ha-brachah, meaning "the blessing" (used in this sense as a euphemism for "the curse") and dabra, an Aramaic form of the Hebrew word dever, meaning "pestilence. ...

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Abracadabra, Abracadabra - Etymology, Abracadabra - I create as I speak, Abracadabra - The curse and the pestilence, Abracadabra - Father Son Holy Spirit, Abracadabra - Disappear like this word, Abracadabra - Abraxas, Abracadabra - Thelema, Abracadabra - Avada Kedavra in Harry Potter

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The religion of Thelema spells the word "Abrahadabra", and considers it the magical formula of the current Aeon. The religion's founder, Aleister Crowley, explains in his essay Gematria that he discovered the word (and his spelling) by cabalistic methods. He appears to say that this happened before his January 1901 meeting with Oscar Eckenstein, one of his teachers. (At this meeting, Eckenstein ordered him to abandon magick for the moment and practice meditation or concentration.) The Word Abrahadabra appears repeatedly in the 1904 in ...

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Abracadabra, Abracadabra - Etymology, Abracadabra - I create as I speak, Abracadabra - The curse and the pestilence, Abracadabra - Father Son Holy Spirit, Abracadabra - Disappear like this word, Abracadabra - Abraxas, Abracadabra - Thelema, Abracadabra - Avada Kedavra in Harry Potter

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