Body & Soul7 mins ago
hocus-pocus
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I know that hocus-pocus means an activity or a belief that you think has no value and is intended to trick people. But I don't know why hocus-pocus becomes to have such a meaning. So, please tell me the origin of hocus-pocus
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Many people believed 'hocus-pocus' to be a corruption of the phrase in the Catholic mass: "Hic est...corpus" - "This is my body..." However, that has been more or less dismissed now. Click http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-hoc1.htm for a web-page with more information.