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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
In modern rural Mexico, nagual is sometimes synonymous with brujo ("wizard"); one who is able to shapeshift into an animal at night (normally into a dog, owl, bat, wolf or turkey), drink blood from human victims, steal property, cause disease, and the like. In some indigenous communities the nagual is integrated into the religious hierarchy.
Witchcraft in Latin America, known in Spanish as brujería (pronounced [bɾuxeˈɾi.a]) [1] [2] and in Portuguese as bruxaria (pronounced [bɾuʃaˈɾi.ɐ]), is blend of Indigenous, African, and European beliefs.
Pages in category "Spanish magicians" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Woody Aragón;
Spanish mythology refers to the sacred myths of the cultures of Spain. They include Galician mythology , Asturian mythology [ es ] , Cantabrian mythology , Catalan mythology , Lusitanian mythology and Basque mythology .
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 ...
[9] [3] The Brazilian forms of the Sorcerer's Treasure vary drastically, though the Portuguese editions are rather stable (at least in comparison). [ 6 ] The most representative edition is the Livraria Económica edition, [ 3 ] which was translated into English as The Book of St. Cyprian - The Sorcerer's Treasure by José Leitão with further ...
The later Middle Ages saw words for these practitioners of harmful magical acts appear in various European languages: sorcière in French, Hexe in German, strega in Italian, and bruja in Spanish. [16] The English term for malevolent practitioners of magic, witch, derived from the earlier Old English term wicce. [16]