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Magician's choice – see Force. Magician's rope – soft, usually white rope used for rope tricks. Magician's wax – wax used to temporarily attach objects. The earliest known magician's wax is beeswax. Manipulator – a magician with a showy sleight of hand act, often set to music. Mark – a subject for a con game.
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
Classic magic words. Magic words are phrases used in fantasy fiction or by stage magicians. Frequently such words are presented as being part of a divine, adamic, or other secret or empowered language. Certain comic book heroes use magic words to activate their powers. Magic words are also used as Easter eggs or cheats in computer games, other ...
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).
The historian Owen Davies stated that the word magic was "beyond simple definition", [224] and had "a range of meanings". [225] Similarly, the historian Michael D. Bailey characterised magic as "a deeply contested category and a very fraught label"; [ 226 ] as a category, he noted, it was "profoundly unstable" given that definitions of the term ...
This is a list of magicians/illusionists, prestidigitators, mentalists, escapologists, and other practitioners of stage magic. For the list of supernatural magicians, see List of occultists. Magicians are listed by the most common name used in performance. Magicians' actual names, when applicable, follow in parentheses.
The English words magic, mage and magician come from the Latin term magus, through the Greek μΞ¬γος, which is from the Old Persian maguš. (πΆπ¦π’π|πΆπ¦π’π, magician). [11] The Old Persian magu-is derived from the Proto-Indo-European megΚ°-*magh (be able). The Persian term may have led to the Old Sinitic *M γ ag (mage or ...
Classic magic words. A magical formula or 'word of power' is a word that is believed to have specific supernatural effects. [19] They are words whose meaning illustrates principles and degrees of understanding that are often difficult to relay using other forms of speech or writing.