4 Verbs to Use for the Word pocus

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

Why, in Saint Rochus They made him stand, and wait his doom; And, as if he were condemned to the tomb, Began to mutter their hocus pocus.

We don't need a hocus-pocus of false sentiment.

I queried: for I did not understand all this hocus-pocus of locating any given spot in the Iowa prairies in 1855.

4 Verbs to Use for the Word  pocus