Word Finder - magician

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A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.

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(sometimes derogatory) A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts.

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A performer of tricks or an escapologist or an illusionist.

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An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.

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A person who astounds; an enigma.

Jule had watched the Magician for a good half hour.

I'm not called the Magician for no reason.

She gave Yully a shove, satisfied when the Magician disappeared.

The Magician smashed her heel into his instep.

Jule's mate, Yully, was known as the Magician and the first to kill an Other.

With the Magician and the Other, you could've done it.

Notwithstanding his own success as a magician Simon Magus was amazed in his turn at the superior power of Christianity.

She's called the Magician.

A Natural with the ability to soak up energy and redirect it, the red-haired Magician was channeling everything she pulled from the Others to him.

He could keep an eye on both the Other and the Magician better.

To the magician, endowed in the opinion of his fellows (and doubtless of himself) with this wonderful power of effective suggestion, the output of such power naturally represents itself as a kind of unconditional willing.

The Magician looked around, confused, before recognition crossed her features.

The beautiful Magician sparked with magic that rippled through her body and shot out through her knives as she deflected and attacked the guardsmen.

The latter was a great magician, able, by operating upon waxen figures of the armies and ships of his enemies, to obtain complete power over their real actions.

Alexius may almost be compared to a magician, who has uttered a charm to summon a ministering spirit, and is surrounded on the instant by legions of demons.

Van Buren did not originate the system, for it was already well developed when he entered public life; but the nickname of "Little Magician" which presently attached to him testifies to the skill with which he exploited it, and to the popular impression which his political methods produced.

Towards the end of the 11th century Cardinal Benno, the opponent of Hildebrand, is said to have made him the first of a long line of magician popes.

Although the Finns are not Sla y s, on topographical grounds mention may here be made of Wainamoinen, the great magician and hero of the Finnish epic Kalevala (" land of heroes ").

So too the autohypnotic trance of the magician or shaman is regarded as due to his visit to distant regions or the nether world, of which he brings back an account.

As a last resource the king sends for Theudas, a magician, who removes the prince's attendants and substitutes seductive girls; but all their blandishments are resisted through prayer.

This was regafded as a miraculous feat brought about by the incantations of the magician Merlin, who caused a great stone circle in Ireland (said to have been previously carried thither out of Africa by giants) to be transported to Salisbury Plain, where, at Merlin's "word of power," all the stones moved into their proper places.

Among the Australian blacks, divination is largely employed to discover the cause of death, where it is assumed to be due to magic; in some cases the spirit of the dead man is held to give the information, in others the living magician is the source of the knowledge.

There is no reason for identifying the Simon Magus of Acts with the Simon, also a magician, who was a friend of Felix, and employed by him to tempt Drusilla away from her husband Azizus, the king of the Emesi.

We're not sure what this Magician is, but her powers are … unique and dangerous.

His instincts told him the Magician was in danger—and needed to stay alive.

The Indian yogi fasts till he sees face to face all the gods of his Pantheon; the Indian magician fasts twelve days before producing rain or working any cure.

Verse so merely states that the people gave heed to the magician, verse s s adds why.

In South Africa and India, on the other hand, the magician digs up a dead body, especially of a child, to secure a familiar.

It is the ritual of a magician, imbedded in which, and alternating with magic formulae and other occult matter, are a number of invocations and prayers which Dieterich reconstructs as a liturgy in use by the clergy of Mithras between A.D.

Hence the king starting as a magician tends gradually to exchange the practice of magic for the functions of prayer and sacrifice."

Shortly after (376), the elder Theodosius was put to death by order of Valens, probably through fear lest he should be the Theodosius or Theodore whom a magician had indicated as the future emperor.

Sometimes the supposed magician or medicine man himself did the scrying; occasionally he enabled his client to see for himself; often a child was selected as the scryer.

Little Book of Card Tricks-Written by a magician, this book gives tips on performing ten tricks.

It wasn't like the Magician's magic, which somehow fused with his, as if they were one person sharing one source of power.

In Australia, however, where sacrifice of the ordinary type is unknown, the ritual killing of a child is practised in connexion with the initiation of a magician; it is therefore by no means axiomatic that animals were offered before human beings; the problem of priority is one to be solved for each area separately, but probably no solution is possible; in the absence of Aztec traditions it would hardly have seemed probable that two centuries had seen so great a transformation.

For entertainment, find an Elvis impersonator or a glitzy magician.

The magician, however, locks them in the greenhouse.

All the children were entertained by a magician, and Father Christmas made a surprise guest appearance to hand out presents.

Understanding the theory behind this rich Western tradition is crucial to becoming an accomplished magician.

A former musician and businessman, Chic has been a practicing ceremonial magician for the past thirty years.

He was a knowledgeable and talented magician, as well as a gentle, ethical man who worked to help others.

At Wizard School, master magician Andrew Mayne will teach you sixteen different acts of wizardry.

He started as a comedy magician but soon realized that being a comic is his true vocation.

I asked him what he thought about people who said he was a mere stage magician.

Many of us grew up watching the misadventures of the misplaced magician.

Or employ professional Irish or salsa dancers, a magician, a highland piper or a comedian.

By drawing the sigil as part of a ritual, the magician can invoke that spirit.

The magician asks the spectator to name their number for the first time.

If you've never seen a magician go stark raving mad over a fairly short period, then it can be instructive.

Again, the magician conscious of his limitations will seek to supplement his influence - his mana, as it is termed in the Pacific - by tapping, so to speak, whatever sources of similar power lie round about him; and these the "magomorphism" of primitive society perceives on every hand.