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- The IHS on the host (communion wafers) are initials for the Egyptian gods Isis, Horus, and Seb/Geb.
Source: Artistic License Religion -
French Canadian cursing is extremely church-centric; some of it combines the sacred with the profane, but a lot of it, when translated literally, comes across to English-speakers as just weird, along the lines of "Christ of the chalice of the tabernacle of the [communion] host of the sacrament".
Source: Rage Against the Heavens -
Communion Host (in Bram Stoker's novel, it was used to seal a crypt and prevent a vampire from entering its coffin at sunrise, and to draw a circle that vampires could not enter or leave).
Source: Our Vampires Are Different
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