[New-Poetry] Magic Spells (word squares)

[Anny Ballardini]

I like the erase one, have a look at Zimmerman's Isotopes:
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content&pa=list_pages_categories&cid=44

p.s.: I would love to have one to place outside my door in any language


From: "Skip Fox" <skip at louisiana.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 8:36 PM


> Have you ever tried this? Here's a beautiful one from mid-19th cent.:
>
> CIRCLE
> ICARUS
> RAREST
> CREATE
> LUSTER
> ESTEEM
>
> I've not done any with six letters, but here's a 5-letter spell that 
> erases
> itself:
>
> ERASE
> RARER
> ARENA
> SENDS
> ERASE
>
> (erase around all sides)
>
> Some groupings are rather interesting:
>
> mind
> idea
> nest
> data
>
> Story goes that many of these were done in Latin with religious
> terms/ideas/elements and used by Romans and others for luck and fortune by
> placing the "spell" 9n a notable place like outside their front gate.
>