Today I Found Out

What the Hokey Pokey is Really All About (2015x59)

: 02, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscr→“Eye Floaters? http://bit.ly/1HLts2r The Surprisingly Short History of the Pony Express http://bit.ly/1forgUD Why Superheroes Wear Their Underwear On The Outside http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K In this video: Like many innocuous songs and dances that you’d assume have fairly benign origins, the Hokey Pokey is believed by some to have fairly sinister beginnings. There are those who insist the song originated with Scottish Puritans in the UK as an anti-Catholic taunt. The words “hokey cokey,” which is how the song is sung in the UK, is supposedly derived from the magician’s incantation “hocus pocus.” Hocus Pocus popped up in the 17th century as a part of the conjuration phrase: “Hocus pocus, tontus talontus, vade celeriter jubeo.” It’s thought by some that this derived from the phrase spoken at Catholic Mass: hoc est enim corpus meum,” or “for this is my body.” Want the text version? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/01/hokey-pokey/ Resources/Further Reading: http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2012/03/frasers-phrases-the-curious-history-of-the-hokey-cokey/ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/arts/music/03degen.html http://mentalfloss.com/article/31063/ambiguous-origins-hokey-pokey http://vestalmorons.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/the-hokey-pokey-is-what-its-all-about/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokey_cokey Image Credit (Thank you) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Jane_Sophie_Egerton_Portrait_of_four_children_1857.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3d/1a/db/3d1adb03f89b9cb1d05135e691505f90.jpg http://www.mgthomas.co.uk/dancebands/Musicians/MusicianPhotos/Al%20Tabor%20band,%200227%20MM.jpg http://www.r2ok.co.uk/AlTabor1939.jpg http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/sites/default/files/JKennedy-320x.jpg http://thebrierfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Joe-Brier-working-on-aircraft.png http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/200