Sources
There are two sources for the text Gardner used to make this chant.
The opening lines, with their repeated Eko eko refrain, apparently come from an article published in a 1921 edition of the journal Form by J. F. C. Fuller, on "The Black Arts", reprinted in The Occult Review in 1923. Fuller's version goes:
- Eko! Eko! Azarak! Eko! Eko! Zomelak!
- Zod-ru-koz e Zod-ru-koo
- Zod-ru-goz e Goo-ru-moo!
- Eko! Eko! Hoo...Hoo...Hoo!
Fuller gives no source for this spell.
In Eight Sabbats for Witches (1981), the Janet and Stewart Farrar provided a version of the Eko Eko chant which they received from Doreen Valiente.
- Eko Eko Azarak
- Eko Eko Zomelak
- Zod ru koz e zod ru koo
- Zod ru goz e goo ru moo
- Eeo Eeo hoo hoo hoo!
In private correspondence to the Farrars, Valiente explained that this was the version Gardner had given to her.
The second source is a thirteenth century French miracle play, Le Miracle de Théophile, by the trouvère Rutebeuf. The original text from the French play is given to the character Salatin — apparently a version of Saladin — who in this play is labelled a sorcerer; Salatin uses these words to invoke the Devil:
- (Ci conjure Salatins le deable.)
- Bagahi laca bachahé,
- Lamac cahi achabahé,
- Karrelyos.
- Lamac lamec bachalyos,
- Cabahagi sabalyos,
- Baryolas.
- Lagozatha cabyolas,
- Samahac et famyolas,
- Harrahya.
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