Politics is the utterance of slogans, group chanting of slogans is power. Gathering powerful slogans is Theory, reciting powerful slogans is Practice, and both are done with Fellow Travelers. "Spell" is another word for slogan.
A kenning or poetic metaphor for for tongue, is: “mouth’s sword.”
The Forbidden Parapsychology by Jose M. Herrou Aragon
https://archive.org/details/the-forbidden-parapsychology
“The man of ritual abides in his room. If his words are well spoken, he meets with assent at a distance of more than a thousand miles (man refers to male or female).”
-Hexagram 61 i-Ching
“If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, Don’t be alarmed now, It’s just a spring clean for the May Queen.” -Led Zeppelin
Latin America has preserved traditions of household shrine rituals. The USA is an Anglo-Latin nation.