The magician sees him and sends the woman to try to bring him within his power.
She is the very same who helps the wickedmagician to entice knights into his castle.
For one instant in looking at her he forgets to guard the spear; he lets it go from his hand, the magician seizes it and strikes the King with it in the side.
She sinks to sleep, and then the magician calls her.
She does not wish to do this, but the magiciancompels her.
It is only when she is asleep that the magician has power over her.
The woman cannot move him more, cannot tempt him, but now the magician himself stands on the wall of the castle with the spear in his hand.
The magician can have her now if he wants her, and surely he will want her.
After the preliminary whistle of the ringmaster which ended the other acts and prepared for Joe's new one, the young magician advanced to the platform and gave a little "patter.
As the man passed Joe, after giving a pull on the last rope, the young magician became aware that Harry had been drinking--and something stronger than pink lemonade.
Of course the fire which seemed to envelop the young magician was instantly put out when he leaped into the tank.
The youngmagician looked to see that all was in readiness.
You won't be in any danger," the young magician went on.
The young magician hauled them up to him by means of the wire.
All the attention of the young magician was centered on what the treasurer had said.
Perhaps some ancient magician did this, but I think he depended more on water than on anything else.
Quickly the young magician raised the soft, black silk gauze, whisking it quickly to one side.
There is a Silesian fairy tale which has reference to the Endive:--The magician Batu had a daughter named Czekanka, who loved the youthful Wrawanec; but a cruel rival slew the beloved one.
The magician Jamblichus, desirous to find out who should succeed Valens in the imperial purple, made use of this divination, but the Cock only picked up four grains, viz.
Thus, the magician or fairy might possess the power of interposing some veil or screen between himself and the seer--etheric or physical--by some act of will.
And now again did the magicianutter prayers, and wave his hands.
Longa had engaged the Magus when at Antioch, but when somewhat summarily sent to Europe by her husband, she had not taken her Chaldaean magician with her.
Then the magician looked round the room, to make sure that he was unobserved; he raised the curtain at the door to see that none listened outside, and satisfied that he was neither observed nor overheard, he pointed to a clepsydra.
The interior would have been wholly dark, but that a brazier with glowing charcoal stood within, and into the fire the magician threw gums, that flamed up and diffused a fragrant smoke.
Now the Magician had no notion that his daughter should marry just an ordinary human prince, the like of whom he had eaten a thousand times, so he sought some way in which he could quietly get rid of Nix Naught Nothing.
Now when the Magician returned in the morning and saw this he was as angry as angry.
Possible it is," quoth Merlin theMagician gravely.
And in an instant he remembered what the Great Magician had said: "Bite no bit, sup no drop, for if in Elfland you sup one drop or bite one bit, never again will you see Middle Earth.
Now when the Magician saw this, he grew hot and angry, and he guessed it was his daughter's magic that had wrought the miracle.
So he took Nix Naught Nothing to his own house under the whirlpools; for the giant was really a great Magician who could take any form he chose.
So Childe Rowland bade her good-bye and went to the cave of the Great Magician Merlin.
So he did as he was bid, and in a moment the dagger had grown to thousands and thousands of sharp razors, criss-cross on the ground, and the Magician giant was howling with pain as he trod among them.
Now the eldest brother of fair Burd Helen was brave indeed, danger did not dismay him, so he begged the Magician to tell him exactly what he should do, and what he should not do, as he was determined to go and seek his sister.
And the Great Magician told him, and schooled him, and after he had learnt his lesson right well he girt on his sword, said good-bye to his brothers and his mother, and set out for the Dark Tower of Elfland to bring Burd Helen back.
What words can describe the deep gloom of the opening scene, where a crafty magician holding a young lady in bondage was discovered, studying an enchanted book to the soft music of a gong!
The magician did not stop to cry, "New lamps for old ones!
The magician was bent on taking it at once from his hand, but the boy was so laden with his fruit that he flatly refused to give it over before getting out of the cave.
A younger brother of the African magician learned of what had happened, and, in the guise of a holy woman, Fatima, whom he killed that he might pretend to take her place, came to live in the palace.
On the dead body of the magicianhe found the lamp, carefully wrapped and hidden in his garments.
On the very next day the magician set out for the capital of China, where on his arrival he took up his lodging in an inn.
Just as they began to fear that he might not find the house, the African magician knocked at the door, and came in, bringing wine and fruits of every sort.
Then the African magician embraced Aladdin and kissed him, saying with tears in his eyes, "I am your uncle.
When the magician came back and paid for them, he put them in a basket and started directly for Aladdin's palace.
There was soon a great heap of them, and when they were in a blaze the magicianthrew in some incense, and spoke magical words which Aladdin did not understand.
By the brink of a fountain they rested, and ate the cakes and fruit which the magician took from his girdle.
Then he returned with extreme care, and found the magician anxiously waiting.
When the widow wept at the thought of her husband, the African magician turned to Aladdin and asked, "What business do you follow?
On they went again after their repast, still farther into the country, till they nearly reached the place, between two mountains, where the magician intended to do the work that had brought him from Africa to China.
The magician then took a ring from his finger and put it on Aladdin's, saying, "This is a talisman against all evil, so long as you obey me.
At last he said, "There is no strength or power but in the great and high God;" and in joining his hands to pray he rubbed the ring which the magician had put on his finger.
The genie made no reply, but in a moment he and the other slaves of the lamp had borne the magician and the palace entire to the spot where he wished it to stand.
Glinda first questioned Bilbil long and earnestly about the manner of his enchantment and the ceremony that had been used by the magician who enchanted him.
It is one of the most powerful enchantments ever accomplished, and the magician is now dead and the secret of the anti-charm lost.
The magician knew something of medicine; he prescribed a calming potion and retired.
When his friend the magician came to see him, he told him his experience: the other smiled.
The magiciansmiled at Flowing-spring: "Love has touched her.
But it is decreed that I will come again to life if a magician performs the ceremony prescribed in the Book-of-Transmutations.
It is a reflection of the light that never yet was seen on sea or land; it is the magician who shapes and colors the universe, as a drop of water mirrors the boundless sky.
All the glory of dawn and sunset is but etheric waves thrilling the vapory air and impinging on the optic nerve; but behind it all is the magician who sees and knows, who thinks and loves.
Where a magician is held in reverence or awe, there will be more practitioners of magic than where a magician is despised as an impostor or shut up as a lunatic.
Was this, indeed, the potent magician whom I had so feared!
The magician was not rent limb from limb by the fiends.
For this trick the young magician needs a glass, which may be either the ordinary tumbler or a wine-glass, as shown in our illustration (Fig.
My magician tells me it is recorded in his books that once, some five thousand years ago, when this land belonged to the Hither people, there lived here a king.
Gregory lay like a magician in the fortress of Canossa: but he had no need of carnal weapons, for when the emperor reached the Alps he was almost alone.
In a word, the ordeal was the common form of test by which the enchanter, the sorcerer, or the magician always was expected to prove himself.
Clergyman and magician both, and the chief of the lying prophets with thick lips.
I went away to that place where I had seen the magicianwith the knife.
According to it, the hero was the son of a magician who appeared to his mother in the form of a great dragon of the air.
He asserts that the magician Merlin transported the materials for the building of Stonehenge from the Irish mountain Killaraus, to Salisbury Plain.
The magician says, "After this shall be produced a tree upon the Tower of London, which, having no more than three branches, shall overshadow the surface of the whole island.
The table was originally constructed by the magician Merlin for Uther Pendragon, Arthur's father.
He was attended by the magician Merlin, and he and his followers performed superhuman feats.
Then the Magician fled amongst the dark, dark trees and I was given the red marble palace to live in.
The Magician had precious stones of every kind and he would have me walk beside him to the Cavern where he kept his precious stones, and as he handled them over he would tell me of the virtues that each stone possessed.
The Magician," said Purpurpurati the Peacock, "The Magician lived in a Palace of red marble that was all surrounded by a forest of black, black trees.
And one day the Magician looking upon me said 'This Peacock I will slay, for the beauty of his neck makes dull my turquoises and the crest on his head is more shapely than my Persian jewel-work.
This young man was the son of a King, and the Magician was his father's brother.
I told her the secrets I had learnt from the Magician when he spoke of the virtues of his precious stones--a ruby in a man's helmet would make a dragon's eyes go blind.
And if the young man died the Magician would become King in his brother's Kingdom.
The resemblance between certain parts of Goethe's Faust and The Wonder-Working Magician of Calderon has been frequently alluded to, and has given rise to a good deal of discussion.
The evening before, the magician had bidden Macrinus come to him at the third hour after sunrise of the next day, which he had unhesitatingly promised to do.
