[New-Poetry] Magic Spells (word squares)

[Suzanne Burns]

Whoooooooaaaah!

I want to dig up more of these!  I see a calligraphy project.  Any sources?

Thanks!

Suzanne




On 3/12/07, Skip Fox <skip at louisiana.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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