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While derived from real-world vocabulary, the terms: magician, mage, magus, enchanter/enchantress, sorcerer/sorceress, warlock, witch, and wizard, each have different meanings depending upon context and the story in question. [3]: 619 Archmage is used in fantasy works to indicate a powerful magician or a leader of magicians. [3]: 1027
One ritual to punish a sorcerer was known as Maqlû, or "The Burning". [4] The person viewed as being afflicted by witchcraft would create an effigy of the sorcerer and put it on trial at night. [4] Then, once the nature of the sorcerer's crimes had been determined, the person would burn the effigy and thereby break the sorcerer's power over ...
In terms of secular legislation, Charles the Great (Charlemagne) was arguably the strongest opposing force to magic. He declared that all who practiced sorcery or divination would become slaves to the Church, and all those who sacrificed to the Devil or Germanic gods would be executed.
Merlin' may also be an adjective, in which case he should be called "The Merlin", from the French merle meaning blackbird. [ 10 ] : 79 According to Martin Aurell, the Latin form Merlinus is a euphony of the Celtic form Myrddin to bring him closer to the blackbird (Latin merula ) into which he could metamorphose through his shamanic powers, as ...
[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 ...
Pompeian wall painting depicting a hermaphrodite sitting, left hand raised towards an old satyr approaching from behind; a maenad or bacchant brings a love potion.. Magic in the Greco-Roman world – that is, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and the other cultures with which they interacted, especially ancient Egypt – comprises supernatural practices undertaken by individuals, often privately ...
The Wicked Witch of the West (The Wizard of Oz) Julia Wicker (The Magicians) Miss Widget (The New Worst Witch) Abigail Williams (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) Winifred (a.k.a. Freddie) (Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers in the episode "Good Times, Bat Times") Winsome Witch (Secret Squirrel) Crescentmoon "Cressie" Winterchild (The New Worst Witch)
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, 721 Historia Regum Britanniae: An Anglo-Saxon king killed by Uther Pendragon, Horsa's brother Hueil mab Caw: Huail Culhwch and Olwen, c. 1110 Vita Gildae, Welsh Triads: A Pictish plunderer and chieftain, killed by Arthur, brother to Saint Gildas: Hoel† (Welsh: Howel, Hywel)