Magic words are phrases used in fantasy fiction or by stage magicians. Frequently such words are presented as being part of a divine, adamic, or other secret or empoweredlanguage. Certain comic book heroes use magic words to activate their powers. Magic words are also used as Easter eggs or cheats in computer games, other software, and operating systems. (For example, the words xyzzy, plugh, and plover were magic words in the classic computer adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure. Please is colloquially referred to as the "magic word".)
Invocations of magic
Examples of traditional and modern magic words include:[1]
Ostagazuzulum – used by the title character, Wizbit, in the British Children's TV series Wizbit.[8]
Shazam – used by the comic book hero Billy Batson to change into Captain Marvel.
Hey, Shadow, remember who you are (Russian: Тень, знай своё место, romanized: Ten, znay svoyo mesto, lit. 'Shadow, know your place') - an incantation used by a Scientist in a movie The Shadow to return his lost shadow, who became to live its own life, to its proper place.
Schwan, kleb an! (literally "Swan, hold fast") - a spell used by the Youngest Brother in the tale "The Magic Swan" in the collection of Ludwig Bechstein. This spell made the people, who touched his magic swan, stick to the latter.
Craig Conley, a scholar of magic, writes that the magic words used by conjurers may originate from "pseudo-Latin phrases, nonsense syllables, or esoteric terms from religious antiquity", but that what they have in common is "language as an instrument of creation".[9]
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