Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Do the Hokey Pokey!
A children's dancing song (the Hokey-Pokey), a Shaker dancing song (the Hinkum-Boobie), and a seventeenth century conjurer's phrase (hocus pocus) all seem to be derived from the Roman Catholic Latin Mass phrase, "Hoc est enim corpus meum," which means in English, "This is my body."
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