letter magic

English

Alternative forms

• letter-magic

Noun

letter magic (uncountable)

1. A type of magical power located within letters, especially of Hebraic, Arabic, or Runic scripts.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 15:

     Perhaps underground streams from the Cabbala (the Judaic esoteric tradition) flow into this story, for in it God is clearly imparting a letter-magic to Adam.