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ab:calls.txt 16jan90
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Of Calls
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Of old there were many chants and songs used, especially in the dances.
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Many of these have been forgotten by us here; but we know they used
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cries of IAU, HAU, which seems much like the cry of the ancients: EVO
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or EAVOE. Much dependeth upon the pronunciation if this be so. In my
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youth when I heard the cry IAU it seemed to me to be AEIOU, or rather
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HAAEE IOOUU or AA EE IOOOOUU. This may be but the way to prolong it to
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make it fit for a call; but it suggests that these may be the initials
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of an invocation, as AGLA used to be. And of sooth the whole Hebrew
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Alphabet is said to be such and for this reason is recited as a most
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powerful charm. At least this is certain, these cries during the dances
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do have a powerful effect, as I myself have seen.
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Other calls are: IEHOUA and EHEIE. Also HO HO HO ISE ISE ISE.
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IEO VEO VEO VEO VEOV OROV OV OVOVO may be a spell, but it is more
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likely to be a call. 'Tis like the EVOE EVOE of the Greeks and the
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"Heave Ho !" of sailors. "Emen hetan" and "Ab hur, ab hus" seem calls;
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as "Horse and hattock, horse and go ! Horse and pellatis, ho, ho, ho !"
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"Thout, tout a tout tout, throughout and about" and "Rentum tormentum"
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are probably mispronounced attempts at a forgotten formula, though they
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may have been invented by some unfortunate being tortured, to evade
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telling the real formula.
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-Published in Janet & Stewart Farrar's "The Witches' Way", from GBG's
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Text B/C BOS.
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