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Problems with the uninitiated

Properly understood, there is nothing "magical" (in the sense of the word used today) about magical formulas. It is not "cultural phenomenon". It is a way of compressing abstract information. "Casting a spell" is merely reiterating a sequence of informational elements that, when interpreted correctly (the original intended meaning), a higher concept is communicated. You stupid fucks.

Not to be confused with what?

Why shouldn't magical formula be confused with magic word? (which is not to be confused with WP:MAGICWORD)

Should magical formula be confused with WP:MAGICWORD in a sense? Perhaps WP:MAGICWORDs are examples.

This and neighboring articles need determination where it is appropriate to link magic spell or incantation (where the "charm" disambig and "enchantment" redirect also lead).

Meanwhile, should magic spell be confused with incantation? Reading our articles it's easy to do. The incantation article seems to say that that is a spell in words, but the spell article seems to presume words so that all spells are incantations along those lines.

Our pages spellcasting and spellcaster do not help here so I replaced them, now in lead parentheses. --P64 (talk) 23:16, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Merger Proposal

I propose this article be merged into Magic word. This appears to be a completely redundant article.GideonF (talk) 08:59, 10 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Notes from Dec 2021 New Page Patrol review

The statement that it should be unmerged looks credible and much work and sourcing has been added. Thanks for your work! North8000 (talk) 22:52, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@North8000:: Based on my work in the subject area, it appears that historically there were at least two different groups competing to make their views predominant in various magical articles. Each group had a mediawiki site that apparently passed for sources in the early days. What was left visible after the dust settled wasn't always the best, most complete, or best cited version. One has to dig deeper for those. It seems none of those players are around anymore... Skyerise (talk)