Brief Reference of Magic Spells

Tanya Grotter and the Golden Leech

Dmitrii Emets

Translated from Russian by

Jane H. Buckingham

Prologue

Thunder shakes the magic school Tibidox. Lightning beat at exactly one point — the masonry on the roof of the Big Tower. And in the neglected gatehouse by the swamp Tanya Grotter discovers the forgotten prophecy of The Ancient One. If an ancient spirit is released, the Golden Leech will begin to crawl into the magic fire and the Rope in the finger-board of the double bass will break, time will swing in the opposite direction, the revived pagan idols will go to war on the Tortoise of Eternity and the Sinister Gates will collapse! The forecasted events begin to happen one after another... And all this during the dragonball world championship, in which the composite Tibidox team must battle with the team of the Invisibles, in which the incomparable Gury Puper shines!

Brief Reference of Magic Spells

Printed with gracious permission of the for-life and posthumous head of Tibidox, laureate of the award of Magic Suspenders, Academician Sardanapal Chernomorov.

Sparkis frontis — combat spark of white magic.

Pointus harpoonus — sleep spell, lifts at dawn.

Firstus drumus — drying of wet clothing.

Trampli-kickli — “kicker” spell; cannot be reversed.

Painus suppressus — spell against pain.

Paranoius roofus blowout! Declinate culminate! — useless combination of spirit-banishing spells.

Fillissimo moronissimo! Scleroticus marasmoticus! — spell for erasure of memory.

Fogus sneakus — spell of burglary (black magic from the list of 100 forbidden spells).

Briskus-quickus — spell against the simplest evil spirits, Black Curtains, poltergeists, and ghosts.

Justislanderis theokssiris! — spell against the King of Ghosts (once a year).

Grail Gardarika — spell of passage from the world of moronoids into the world of magicians; works only at one point above the island of Buyan.

Liftis-cockus — removes the chicken evil eye.

Shedus spectacus — spell of invisibility, weak and sufficiently confusing; does not apply to hair and clothing.

Solidus royalismus — spell that sometimes blocks dark magic (not more than one spark in strength).

Squeezus pullus — “embrace” spell, no need for comments.

Panidis scorchus — is it always necessary to ignite fire with the help of matches?

Trigus sputterus — puts out flame.

Hap-tsap — displacement of objects to small and average distances; do not use without special necessity, not inconceivable that the transferred object will show up broken into smithereens.

Checkis trackis ransackis — search spell.

Hungeronus hungerygus — causes a sharp feeling of hunger.

Wiza cockwiza — “crammer” spell (black magic from the list of 100 forbidden spells); useful for the preparation of lessons, blocked by instructors during exams and tests.

Bowus threebowus — simple spell for lazy people, ties laces. Attention! If no laces on footwear, will tie toes!

Cleanus tubecleanus — another spell for lazy people, washes and cleans teeth; explosion possible in the presence of chewing gum in mouth.

Paperykus creepoutus — for remote displacement of papers.

Plugis cutdownis — “leaving, turn out lights.”

Furyllis ebbus trufus paradisis appedicitus hellus — fatal curse (abbreviated form).

Blowis nullis — counter-spell to imposition of fatal curse (only during the five minutes after imposition of the curse).

Thunderium grandium — spell of chaos (black magic from the list of 100 forbidden spells).

Kaput youfinitut — spell to separate the soul from the body (black magic from the list of 100 forbidden spells).

Whoopli woepli penalbowpli — casts evil eye (black magic of average power).

Feverytb — “anti-hiccup” magic.

Trickus runtus — lifts sharp pain in the stomach.

Goatbumpy noisu — lifts “frog” evil eye (to be used no later than first turning green!)

Slopis-galoshis-idiotis — against swamp bogeys; does not work on other forms of evil spirits.

Flight

Speedus envenomus — the swiftest and most dangerous.

Hastenus plodus — average.

Pilotus kamikazis — slow, but load-lifting; equally suitable for elephants and klutzes.

Oyoyoys smackis thumpis — safety net.

Bangus parachutis — braking.

Bangus parachutis forte — accelerated braking for special landing.

“Bewitched Pass”

Gullis-dullis (the pass) — Tsap-tsaraps (the block).

Trullis-zapullis (the pass) — Leos-zafindileos (the block).

Figus-zatsapus (the pass) — Shchups-kuroshchups (the block).