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Can someone tell me what the deal is, not just with Wiccans, but also with all sorts of generally not that fluffy Pagans, and the gratuitous rhyming in spells? Why do we think that works? I mean, i get rhythm, specificty, musicality, and making shit easier to remember, but COME ON. Say what you will about Crowley, but among other things, you've got to give him that he's not a gratuitous, or Hallmark-style rhymer.

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To make it easier to remember, and because most people can't write really good poetry. "Da-dum da-dum da-dum da-dum, da-dum da-dum da-DUM," somehow sticks in many people's heads, as much as it grates in ours.

I always suspected the gods prefer assonance, consonance, and vivid imagery, myself.