To this end Mephistopheles devises the elaborate hocus-pocus of the Mothers.

There is some hocus-pocus about everything you do in the army.

If so, which of the two candidates is typified in the unfortunate who leads the horse?for we believe the only hope of the party is to get one of them elected by some hocus-pocus in the House of Representatives.

Another cure for colic is effected by certain hocus-pocus with a scrap of wool from the forehead of a first-born lamb, if only the lamb, instead of being allowed to fall to the ground, has been caught by hand as it dropped from its dam.