why do people think abrakadabra is a magic word?

Answer 1

What we know for sure is that it was first recorded in a Latin medical poem, De medicina praecepta, by the Roman physician Quintus Serenus Sammonicus in the second century AD. It’s believed to have come into English via French and Latin from a Greek word abrasadabra (the change from s to c seems to have been through a confused transliteration of the Greek).

There are some more theories

It’s from the Aramaic phrase avra kehdabra, meaning “I will create as I speak”.
The source is three Hebrew words, ab (father), ben (son), and ruach acadosch (holy spirit).
It’s from the Chaldean abbada ke dabra, meaning “perish like the word”.
It originated with a Gnostic sect in Alexandria called the Basilidians and was probably based on Abrasax, the name of their supreme deity (Abraxas in Latin sources).

Answer 2

because when magicians say it magical things happen, like there will be an empty box, the magician says abrakadabra and something appears in the box. so it must be a magic word if it does stuff like that x

Answer 3

In my Oxford dictionary it just says that abracadabra is a formulative spell used by magicians "and is gibberish".

Answer 4

Because, if you say it very carefully, you will become a frog. Try it!

Answer 5

How do you know it's not?