Abracadabra

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 18

Abracadabra, a magical word or formula constructed out of the letters of the alphabet, and supposed to be highly efficacious for the cure of A B R A C A D A B R Aagues and fevers. The A B R A C A D A B R letters were written so as A B R A C A D A B A B R A C A D A B A B R A C A D A B A B R A C A A B R A A B R A C A B R A A B R A C A B R A A B R A A B R A C A B R A A B R A

backward before sunrise into a stream running eastward. The adjoining is one way of arranging this mystic word.

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