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Many attacks go unreported, as the belief in witchcraft and the desire to punish sorcerers are widespread.—
Emma Bubola,
New York Times,
24 Nov. 2024 -
The 2017 film from director Nikolaj Arcel introduces audiences to Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor), a troubled teenager plagued by visions of a mysterious tower, a malevolent sorcerer and a lone gunslinger.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes,
7 Dec. 2024
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Newcomers of Central Florida: Magic Show luncheon with magician Kevin King performing strolling and sleight-of-hand magic tricks.—
Joe Rassel,
Orlando Sentinel,
22 Jan. 2025
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What was once the realm of magicians had — with the help of breakthroughs like the discovery of DNA — become a more legitimate pursuit.—
Joe Kloc,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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For years Johnson, the disheveled political magus, was the golden boy of Britain's Conservative Party.—
Sam Kiley,
CNN,
30 June 2022
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But other students are there for Wittgenstein the sage, the magus, the riddler—the man who left Russell bewildered by a turn to mysticism at the end of a book that was supposed to be about logic.—
Nikhil Krishnan,
The New Yorker,
9 May 2022
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The victims, many of them elderly, were accused of using voodoo to harm the gang leader’s son.—
Azhar Fateh,
Fox News,
15 Jan. 2025
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This poor dude is stuck taking over his father’s — a father who left when Frank was 2 — New Orleans restaurant when one of the employees puts a voodoo spell over him.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
27 June 2024
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Like Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum and other great enchanters before him, Miyazaki, now 82, delights in ushering us, alongside his young heroines and heroes, into ravishing storybook worlds that are at once scarily unquantifiable and eerily recognizable.—
Justin Chang,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Nov. 2023
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It’s been generations since the rise of Dark Lord Morgoth, but armies led by the likes of Morfydd Clark’s Galadriel have been fighting Morgoth and his legions, including bloodthirsty orcs and the powerful enchanter Sauron.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
31 Aug. 2022
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Who's the mage whose major itinerary is making all Oz merrier?—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
25 Nov. 2024
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This May 24, 2021 mage provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Susan Smith.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
20 Nov. 2024
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Dori Media is launching sales at the new confab later this month on the modern fairytale series about witches and curses among mothers and daughters.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
5 Feb. 2025
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At Del’s birthday party, another folk song was unearthed, this one about a witch dying in 1816.—
Vlada Gelman,
TVLine,
31 Jan. 2025
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But when two strangers arrive, the once-invincible conjurer’s powers weaken, leaving the town in danger.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
20 Dec. 2024
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Goth Shakira is an Aquarian digital conjurer and Queen of Pentacles divining in Los Angeles.—
Goth Shakira,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Dec. 2024
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“Occultist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/occultist. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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