→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?: http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from Today I Found Out: Who was the Real Mother Goose? http://bit.ly/1KmiHHE The Language Made Up Entirely of Whistles http://bit.ly/1IkvyYm In this video: These days you might hear Abracadabra before some stage magician pulls a rabbit out of his hat, but hundreds of years ago people actually believed that “abracadabra” was a magical spell. The exact origin of the word is up for debate, but perhaps one of the oldest records we have of “Abracadabra” being used is a snippet from a Roman sage named Serenus Sammonicus in the 2nd century AD from his Liber Medicinalis: Want the text version? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/11/origin-word-abracadabra/ Source/Further reading: http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/2013/05/13/abracadabra-serenus-sammonicus-lib-med-923-941/ http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/abracadabra.html http://www.paranormalhaze.com/five-magic-word-origins/ http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1313/whats-the-origin-of-abracadabra-hocus-pocus-and-presto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abracadabra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenus_Sammonicus http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/07/spells-harry-potter/ http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Abracadabra.html Image Credit (Thank you) https://aguaeazeite.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/abracadabra_liber_medicinalis.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Abrakadabra,_Nordisk_familjebok.png http://virtuala.org/tayny/abrakadabra.jpg http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000TLTRD6/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000TLTRD6&linkCode=as2&tag=vicastingcom-20 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486419193/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp