The Lutheran Reformation
.. An example of clerical ignorance; which infested the local poor, involved the phrase, hoc est mea corpus (“this is my body”) uttered during the administration of the Eucharist. Parish Priests often mumbled through the phrase, without any concept of its meaning—that the body of Christ was sacrificed for sin—and understood only that it had some mystical, perhaps magical qualities. It was a corruption of this phrase that led to the magical incantation, “Hocus Pocus.” ..
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