hocus-pocus (n.)

• abracadabra
• artifice
• cheat
• chicanery
• conjuring
• deceit
• deception
• duplicity
• flimflam
• gibberish
• hoax
• humbug
• incantation
• jiggery-pokery
• jugglery
• legerdemain
• magic
• mischief
• nonsense
• prestidigitation
• rigmarole
• swindle
• trick
• trickery