The History of Magic in the Indo-European Languages

Daniel Ogden: We have phrases in other Indo-European languages. And these are simply jangling and rhyming so for example now I'm going to apologize to any Irish people listening because my old Irish is not what it might be. In Greek the first part of that Greek Ephesian letters askeon kataskeon can not meaning not meaningful may have katane there. Daniel Ogden: That's presumably the spell phrase being so important that it's fossilised and preserved whilst the language evolves around it.