FlexiLingo
Stage magic as we know it today is very different from how it began. The consequences of those early days, though, are all around us. Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by GennaRose Nethercott, research by Cassandra de Alba, and music by Chad Lawson. ————————— BUY EXHUMED TODAY: aaronmahnke.com/exhumed ————————— Lore Resources: Get Ad-Free Lore: lorepodcast.com/support Episode Music: lorepodcast.com/music Episode Sources: lorepodcast.com/sources Official Lore Merchandise: lorepodcast.com/shop ————————— Sponsors: BetterHelp: Lore is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/LORE, and get on y...
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["Halloween is Right Around the Corner." Halloween is right around the corner, and for most people, that means a rewatch of all the cozy seasonal favorites. Beetlejuice, and of course, maybe the most quintessential Halloween nostalgia flick of all,
Hocus Pocus. Of course, the term Hocus Pocus far predates the Sanderson sisters and their 1993 release. Like Abracadabra and Open Sesame, Hocus Pocus falls under the category of magic words that all of us just somehow seem to know. But have you ever wondered where those magic words come from. Well, as it turns out, stage magicians have been saying hocus pocus for more
than 400 years. And before it was a common spell, it may just have been a person. Apparently, one of the most popular magicians of the early 1600s was an Englishman named William Vincent. He'd do card tricks, swallow swords, make objects disappear, that sort of thing. As part of his act, though, he would utter nonsense, fake Latin phrases over the tricks
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