scelestus? owo

nope! but shh! don't guess! You'll start the apocalypse! :x

Yay! apoppylips! owo
my chibi zombie say that iz their "spring break"

XD

That's so interesting! I've often wondered about words like that and what they could be capable of.

Let me guess, nefas?

This is interesting. I've never heard of anything like that happening before (I use some sort-of similar words when channelling Reiki but nothing like that has happened).

I had a similar experience a few years ago. Fresh out of catholic high school and browsing the library of my community college, i found an encyclopedia on demons. I cannot remember the name of the publisher but it was a modern published book. I took it home and read some of it and found it to be quite interesting, a compendium of all things delightfully demonic. However, that night i was also bombarded with terrifying and intense visions. I can barely remember what it was, but i do remember being unable to control my own mind and what i was seeing, having every image in my head being horribly corrupted. It Scared the motherfucking shit out of me and i took the encyclopedia back the next day. The only other time i had something scare me that bad was when i saw an image of smile dog a year or so later.

Truth be told i think what happened was mostly mental because i doubt that modern published, printed encyclopedia has any sort of occult power. The mind is a very powerful thing and i think my mind was just in a particularly vulnerable position right before bed and i was bombarded solely by the power of my imagination. Then again you never know. Maybe there is something to the words of power.

Words shape thought. The whole point of an incantation is to channel the thought and will of the magician, and make it manifest upon the world; just as in any other ritual.

So I would not hold it to be the word itself that has the power -- a word by itself is just a collection of sounds -- but rather the thoughts, ideas, and associations that it evokes. Just like we hold runes to be magical because they are symbols.

We hold some words to be powerful because they have a long and potent association with some concept, and some because they express a given concept more clearly and precisely than any other could. We accord phrases and sentences their power by how evocative and expressive they are -- how strongly they will trigger the minds of those who hear them.

It's all about association. Certainly there are some words people hold to have power in them, whether for good or evil; but this is due to the ideas that are tied to them, and have been tied to them for so long that the words have seemed to take on a life of their own. If such words are held to have a power of their own, as opposed to stirring a power within those who hear them, it is because our collective consciousness has given it to them.

I will not discount that such a word could have power. It could be that it became linked to events that had a great and lasting impact on the human condition, such that their effects -- and therefore the memories that word could stir -- are not yet dead.

Or it could be that you should look more to what brought that word into your mind to explain the effects it worked upon you, rather than the word itself.

I cannot really say.