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speaking of hocus-pocus: the old Catholic Mass: HOC EST enim
corPUS meum: "this is my body". The priest faced the wall, the
bread became the body of Christ, the uneducated masses (people)
thought it was magic: hence: what they could hear: hocus-pocus.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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