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Do you have an M Squared life? Matt does...:: Thursday, November 18, 2004 ::
Hokey Pokey = Hocus Pocus
I'm really in to history, so you'd think I'd have seen this one before:
The Hokey Pokey was originally a Puritan parody of the Catholic Mass. See http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/OLD-ENGLISH/2001-03/0985552472 for details.
Which brings me back to one I do remember: Hocus Pocus. Hocus Pocus is an imitation of unintelligible Mass-Latin for the phrase in communion where, after much hand-waving, the Priest elevates the bread and says, "Hoc est corpus meum." (This is my body.) It's easy to see how Hocest Corpus became Hocus Pocus.
Link via Steve.
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