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[Koen G]

Didn't Koen have an expert on charms on his YouTube channel confirm this was in fact a typical charm?

She confirmed that it is absolutely certainly a charm, and agreed with me that lack of meaning was the point. That is to say, charms can be part of a series of instructions, but they don't need to contain any meaningful words themselves.

For example: write "abracadabra + rex + nax + hax" on a piece of paper and put it against the patient's forehead. The meaning of the section with crosses is irrelevant to the instructions, even in cases where it contains meaning. For example, there are common charms involving the magi, but these are still magic formulae. The phrases about the magi have no relation to the instructions outside of the charm.

So in that sense, the words with crosses are exactly what we'd expect from a charm. Attempts to read You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as a continuous text are deeply misguided, because the two lines with crosses have all the appearance of nonsense magic words. We have to allow them to be meaningless because they're supposed to be meaningless.

That said, many charms fall into familiar categories. You can say ah, this is a variation of the three magi charm. The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. charm appears related to those that use short words ending in -x, but it's not very close to a known archetype.