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3 Useful Phrases Related to Magic & Fantasy | Lists for Writers | Neha’s Notebook


#1 Cap And Bells

  • A phrase that implies a cap containing bells, or having bells attached to it, usually worn as a costume by a professional clown or a court’s jester.
  • It is also known by the phrases such as the ‘FOOL’S CAP’ or the ‘JESTER’S HAT’.

#2 Houdini

  • A magician or escape artist who possesses fine abilities to escape from chains, locks, traps, mazes, handcuffs, padlocked containers, or difficult situations.
  • Someone who disappears or vanishes all of a sudden without anyone knowing how.
  • The term is coined after a famous French magician “HARRY HOUDINI”. 

#3 Pandora’s Box

  • A source of continuous trouble, problems, conflict or evil.
  • Something when started, opened or initiated, leads to innumerable problems or unfortunate events.
  • The phrase has its origins in Greek mythology, according to which, the first woman of Earth named ‘PANDORA’ unintentionally opened a box which was ‘not’ supposed to be opened – a box of death, sickness, evil & all kinds of destructive spirits.


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