by "leeedgartyler" <leeedgartyler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Mar 5, 2005 at 07:36 AM
"Dan Clore" <clore@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:38de01F5c2ihuU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>A few errors from Randi's book _An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and
>Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural_:
>
> abracadabra: "This is the name of the supreme deity of the
> Assyrians." Not the name of any deity at all.
>
That's right. It comes from the first four letters of the alphabet, which
in some preliterate parts of Europe was until living memory considered to
be
magical.
Ed Tyler
