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If you're starting to itch, just understand that I'm an atheist who doesn't believe in hocus-pocus.

SeeLight: 2006

If you're starting to itch, just understand that I'm an atheist who doesn't believe in hocus-pocus.

Five Elements for Writers 2006

Not everyone believes in hocus pocus lifestyles of religious superstition and the fact that the Bible is purely FICTION and was written long after those apostles died and that the Gnostics written by women were omitted from the Bible not to mention how much the Bible has been altered and words changed in that work of fiction all these years.

Think Progress » O’Reilly Responds: “What I Said Isn’t Controversial. What I Said Needed to Be Said.” 2005

Plus, not everyone believes in hocus pocus lifestyles of the religious superstition and the fact that the Bible is purely FICTION and was written long after those apostles died and that the Gnostics written by women were omitted from the Bible not to mention how much the Bible has been altered and words changed in that work of fiction all these years.

Think Progress » O’Reilly Responds: “What I Said Isn’t Controversial. What I Said Needed to Be Said.” 2005

Not everyone believes in hocus pocus lifestyles of the religious superstition and the fact that the Bible is purely FICTION and was written long after those apostles died and that the Gnostics written by women were omitted from the Bible not to mention how much the Bible has been altered and words changed in that work of fiction all these years.

Think Progress » O’Reilly Responds: “What I Said Isn’t Controversial. What I Said Needed to Be Said.” 2005

It’s when people start believing in hocus pocus like this that it becomes a problem, such as refusal of medical care, placing someone’s faith instead in God to heal their ills, or handling poisonous snakes under the auspices that their faith will protect them from harm.

Criss Angel ‘Phenomenon’ Fight Video 2007

"What you may term the hocus-pocus side of the case," he replied,

The Green Eyes of Bâst Sax Rohmer 1921

It also means the expert deception of the senses by the tricks of a conjurer, so-called hocus-pocus and fraud, and a magician is either an evil-minded, superstitious mortal, fool enough to believe in charms, or an expert pretender and imposter of the first water, who cheats and deceives the people.

The light of Egypt; or, The science of the soul and the stars 1900

For myself, I care nothing for the gift of interpretation, and far less for that dreadful type of effete facility which produces a kind of hocus-pocus technical brilliancy which fuddles the eye with a trickery, and produces upon the untrained and uncritical mind a kind of unintelligent hypnotism.

Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

You see the liars up on the internet with interest rates being at 4.625% and all this kind of hocus pocus, its not true.

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