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[a] This list comprises and encompasses people, both contemporary and historical, who are or were professionally or otherwise notably involved in occult practices, including alchemists, astrologers, some Kabbalists, [b] magicians, psychics, sorcerers, and practitioners some forms of divination, especially Tarot. People who were or are merely ...
Mastro Benvenuto: Nicknamed Asdente ("toothless"), he was a late 13th-century Parma shoemaker, famous for his prophecies against Frederick II. Dante also mentions him with contempt in his Convivio, as does Salimbene in his Cronica, though with a very different tone. Among the soothsayers. Inf. XX, 118–120.
[6] Although 5000 years ago, soothsayers were prized advisers to the Assyrians, they lost respect and reverence during the rise of Reason in the 17th and 18th centuries. [7] With the rise of commercialism, "the sale of occult practices [adapted to survive] in the larger society," according to sociologists Danny L. and Lin Jorgensen. [8]
If a distinction is made between divination and fortune-telling, divination has a more formal or ritualistic element and often contains a more social character, [citation needed] usually in a religious context, as seen in traditional African medicine. Fortune-telling, on the other hand, is a more everyday practice for personal purposes.
Fictional characters with body or mind control abilities (2 C, 121 P) T. Fictional telekinetics (3 C, 75 P) Fictional telepaths (5 C, 125 P)
This is a list of science fiction and fantasy artists, notable and well-known 20th- and 21st-century artists who have created book covers or interior illustrations for books, or who have had their own books or comic books of fantastic art with science fiction or fantasy themes published. Artists known exclusively for their work in comic books ...
Sophie, the daughter of R. Crumb and Aline Kominsky, was only 19 at the time she contributed her art, as artist/co-writer Daniel Clowes didn't believe he could "draw like a girl." Salvador Dalí [14] dream sequence Spellbound: Hélène Delmaire [15] paintings and sketches Portrait of a Lady on Fire: Delmaire's hands were featured in the film [16]
Happy (manga character) Jade Harley; He-Man; Jenna Heap; Septimus Heap (character) Simon Heap; Lucy Heartfilia; Rinoa Heartilly; Hela (character) Hellawes (sorceress) Hestia (character) Rolanda Hooch; The Hood (Thunderbirds) Hor son of Punesh; Horpyna (fictional character) Wizard Howl; Hreiðmarr; Hungan (TV character) Huntress Wizard