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Where did hocus pocus come from?

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Where did hocus pocus come from?

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Peter Sorenson is quite correct. Because the “man on the street” did not speak or read Latin, all he heard were the syllables which the prist intoned. Over time, this got corrupted into “hocus pocus.” I never even heard of this so-called Norseman.

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