tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post4125229003494849148..comments2024-01-21T02:58:08.208-05:00Comments on On the Main Line: When hocus pocus peddlers would actually say hocus pocus! An 18th century Yiddish medical and superstition smashing book.Mississippi Fred MacDowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734864605700159687noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-62543464127350361022012-04-18T18:48:04.489-04:002012-04-18T18:48:04.489-04:00My father, originally from Poland and a native Yid...My father, originally from Poland and a native Yiddish speaker, would say "Hocus Pocus Imarocus".Saul Liebermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07399120227171316267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-9582642849340620212012-04-18T11:28:02.719-04:002012-04-18T11:28:02.719-04:00Dan, true, but all that means is that the translat...Dan, true, but all that means is that the translator just guessed. Googling the word shows only the book itself. I doubt Zinberg knew (no explanation in the original Yiddish, which is on archive.org, either). I think the heilige kurkevan is almost certainly correct.S.http://onthemainline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-56444227638251104702012-04-18T10:49:29.370-04:002012-04-18T10:49:29.370-04:00No relation to Bogus?
Is this on Google Books, wh...No relation to Bogus?<br /><br />Is this on Google Books, why no link?YD Millernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-4266996149021997052012-04-18T02:59:05.404-04:002012-04-18T02:59:05.404-04:00After googling different variations of the "h...After googling different variations of the "hocus pocus" phrase, I found it spelled "hocus pocus triocus" in a translation of this passage from Marcuse's book in "The Berlin Haskalah," which is part IX of Israel Zinberg's "History of Jewish Literature." But no explanation is provided.Dan Kleinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-84395494874429335392012-04-17T19:03:57.642-04:002012-04-17T19:03:57.642-04:00Bleigiessen is lead pouring, for anyone else who w...Bleigiessen is lead pouring, for anyone else who wondered.Joe in Australianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-29850162186391471532012-04-17T18:43:58.338-04:002012-04-17T18:43:58.338-04:00I know, but I say it because then there's at l...I know, but I say it because then there's at least a chance!S.http://onthemainline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-2287529389643654122012-04-17T17:50:35.551-04:002012-04-17T17:50:35.551-04:00"The book deserves its own post, and will get..."The book deserves its own post, and will get one"<br /><br />sure, like we've never heard that before! ;)Abbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06147724170190982376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-35531675293078555692012-04-17T16:54:23.757-04:002012-04-17T16:54:23.757-04:00According to the wiki entry, that yiddish bocus ma...According to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hocus_Pocus_(magic)" rel="nofollow">wiki entry</a>, that yiddish bocus may in fact be bocus, not pocus...<br /><br />Hocus Pocus: Words of pseudomagical import. According to Sharon Turner in The History of the Anglo-Saxons (4 vols., 1799-1805), they were believed to be derived from "Ochus Bochus," a magician and demon of the north.[5]<br /><br />5.^ Answers.com [4] http://www.answers.com/topic/hocus-pocusMagicMannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-66000402587261433742012-04-17T16:17:39.143-04:002012-04-17T16:17:39.143-04:00Can you find me a Yiddish-isim for Ala-Peanut Butt...Can you find me a Yiddish-isim for Ala-Peanut Butter Sandwiches?Lakewood Falling Downhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14483392684657880997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-43246046078104333512012-04-17T14:14:41.087-04:002012-04-17T14:14:41.087-04:00Fantastic! Thank you.Fantastic! Thank you.S.http://onthemainline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-36240851092241658402012-04-17T14:07:58.991-04:002012-04-17T14:07:58.991-04:00It's almost certainly a reference to "the...It's almost certainly a reference to "theriac" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theriac).kurkevannoreply@blogger.com