noun
Charm
incantation, spell, chant; see magic 1.
A trick
fraud, hoax, flimflam*; see deception 1, trick 1.
See hocus-pocus in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
Esoteric, formulaic, and often incomprehensible speech relating to the occult:
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