Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Whats the Hokey Cokey stuff all about now?
According to Beth Ann Hughes "hokey cokey" comes from "hocus pocus", the traditional magician's incantation which in its turn derives from a distortion of hoc est enim corpus meum - "this is my body" - the Latin words of consecration accompanying the elevation of the host at Eucharist, the point, at which according to traditional Catholic practice, transubstantiation takes place - mocked by Puritans and others as a form of "magic words". The Anglican Canon Matthew Damon, Provost of Wakefield Cathedral, West Yorkshire, says that the dance as well comes from the Catholic Latin m.[2] The priest would perform his movements with his back to the congregation, who could not hear well the words, nor understand the Latin, nor clearly see his movements. This theory led Scottish politician Michael Matheson in 2008 to urge police action "against individuals who use it to taunt Catholics.”This claim by Matheson was deemed ridiculous by fans from both sides of the old firm and calls have been put out on fans forums for both sides of the Old Firm to join together to sing the song on 27th Dec 2008 at Ibrox to show that enough is enough.[
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