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[Jorge_Stolfi]

Here’s an example of an incomprehensible charm: ... there isn’t a single coherent sentence to be made out over four lines. Most of the words are not even legible.  So what we do is try to make sense of these words; you can do that, but it doesn’t necessarily lead to anything, as this charm illustrates.

Again, again, again: I am NOT asking for the words of the charm to make sense.  I understand that charms typically use nonsense words, and may not have a single word that is valid in any language. 

Your theory for You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (the "standard" one) is that the text is a recipe in some Germanic dialect plus a pseudo-Latin charm or spell, that someone decided to write on an area that had nothing written on it. 

So I am asking only for a example of a charm somewhere else that uses at least ONE of the words "anchiton", "ola8aba8", "multos", "ctcr", "cere", "porta8", "six", "marix", "morix", "vix", or "abia".  

If you can't do that, that is bad news for your theory.  It would require that the person who wrote You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. either invented a new charm with all new words, or chose a pseudo-Latin charm that was entirely unlike all the charms that we have samples of.  Either alternative is rather unlikely, don't you agree?

PS: As I’ve just come across this by chance: a version of it dating back 250/270 years spells it as follows:

So, you see, your first example was not an original creation.  It was circulating in the 1400s and was still being used 200 years later -- with changes, but still quite recognizable.  Which is my point.

All the best, --stolfi