I’ve got one other thing to add: ΑΣΚΙ ΚΑΤΑΣΚΙ ΛΙΞ ΤΕΤΡΑΞ ΔΑΜΝΑΜΕΝΕΥΣ ΑΙΣΙΟΝ.

Funny addendum: while I’ve always been of the opinion that the famous voces magicae “hocus pocus” either came from the Eucharistic phrase “Hoc est enim corpus meum” (this is my body) or the doggerel Latin “hax pax max Deus adimax” today I read that in Sharon Turner’s The History of the Anglo-Saxons it is claimed to derive from Ochus Bochus, a Norse magician or galdrmaster who became a demon in death called upon for aid by other magicians. I also read that it was a Russian corruption of the name Bacchus, but I have a hunch that’s not true.

I do, however, believe in the power of: ΑΡΒΑΘ ΑΡΒΑΩΘ ΒΑΚΧΑΒΡΗ.

Do you know what it means and what it does?