in other words, they were actually an organization of magicians.

Rav Zeira said, " You were created by the magicians ; return to your dust.

Moses obtained a fourth meeting, and had Aaron bring frogs from the Nile to overrun Egypt, but Pharaoh's magicians were able to do the same thing.

The McDonnell laboratory did not make any formal statements or publications suggesting that the effects demonstrated by the two magicians were genuine.

Folk magicians throughout Europe were often viewed ambivalently by communities, and were considered as capable of harming as of healing, which could lead to their being accused as " witches " in the negative sense.

Several medieval scholars were considered to be magicians in popular legend, notably Gerbert d ' Aurillac and Albertus Magnus: both men were active in the scientific research of their day as well as in ecclesiastical matters, which was enough to attach to them a nimbus of the occult.

Some of these squares were later used in conjunction with magic letters as in ( Shams Al-ma ' arif ) to assist Arab illusionists and magicians.

The scholar Jane Ellen Harrison wrote that besides being guardians, nurturers, and initiators of the infant Zeus, the Kouretes were primitive magicians and seers.

However the re-creations did not involve overt escape, merely a replication of tricks with the statement that they were accomplished by secret magicians ' skills rather than spirits.

* The Minor Arcana consist of highly skilled magicians such as the Alchemist seeking the philosopher's stone and the potion of immortality, the Jewelsmith Artificer, which manufactures protective amulets and rings Powers ( similar the Elves of Eregion who were manipulated by Sauron in the work of Tolkien ), the Mechanician Artificer that makes the statues come alive, mechanisms and magical traps, the Weaponsmith Artificer that manufactures weapons and armor magic ( a class in which Dwarves particularly excel ), the Astrologer who reads the future in the stars and Diviner which reads the future in Tarot cards.

A changing series of live acts and curiosities, including albinos, giants, midgets, " fat boys ," jugglers, magicians, exotic women, detailed models of cities and famous battles, and, eventually, a menagerie of animals were added to the exhibits of stuffed animals.

The settlers had to travel four leagues to relieve themselves at a place called Cuitlatepec, or Cuitlatetelco, but, since they were great magicians, they flew there.

He also emphasized that the Egyptian magicians were able to reproduce several of Moses ' " miracles ," proving that they could not have been so unique.

Jannes and Jambres, or sometimes Johanai and Mamre, or Iannes and Mambres, or Janis and Jamberes, are names traditionally given to the magicians who contended with Moses and Aaron and were discomfited by the Hebrew leaders in the Hebrew Bible Book of Exodus.

Nevertheless, while he defended the idea that the Devil's power was not as strong as claimed by the orthodox Christian churches in De Praestigiis Daemonum, he defended also the idea that demons did have power and could appear before people who called upon them, creating illusions ; but he commonly referred to magicians and not to witches when speaking about people who could create illusions, saying they were heretics who were using the Devil's power to do it, and when speaking on witches, he used the term mentally ill.

The classes sorcerer and wizard were available to experienced conjurers and magicians.

Professional magicians would use his gags to add humor to their acts ; comedians also came into magic stores, for props and books, as there were no comedy stores or resources as such at that time.

Copperfield notes that his role models growing up were not magicians, that " My idols were Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Orson Welles and Walt Disney ... they took their individual art forms and they moved people with them ...

The restaurants were to have magic props and other items on the walls of the restaurants while magicians would go around to tables doing sleight of hand tricks.

Steinmeyer observes that: " Before Selbit's illusion, it was not a cliche that pretty ladies were teased and tortured by magicians.

In the Nintendo / GameFreak video game franchise " Pokémon ", there are three creatures in the same evolutionary chain named Abra, Kadabra, and Alakazam ( the third of which is also an alleged magic word used by stage magicians ).

While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.

It continued to be used by magicians but also to project moving images for entertainment.

Visualization techniques, for instance, widely used by magicians, are also used in somewhat different contexts in fields such as clinical psychology and sports training.

The word " psychic " is also used to describe theatrical performers, such as stage magicians, who use techniques such as prestidigitation, cold reading, and hot reading to produce the appearance of such abilities.

It was also commonly believed that Norrland was inhabited by magicians.

he is believed to cure, like all doctors, and to perform miracles of the fakir type, like all magicians [...] But beyond this, he is a psychopomp, and he may also be a priest, mystic, and poet.

Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.

They also appear in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, together with Moses, as famous magicians of antiquity ; Pliny's citation is also referred to in Apuleius.

The Egyptians are also attributed powers that suggest the existence of their gods ; in, after Aaron transforms his staff into a snake, Pharaoh's magicians do likewise.

Some chaos magicians also use psychedelic drugs in practices such as chemognosticism.

This is a skill peculiar to chaos magicians, requiring a deep understanding of the nature of memory and belief and is also the proposed mechanism through which all magic works.

He has written multiple books on comedy, mostly collections of gags and " one-liners " originally written for his newsletter, Orben's Current Comedy, and he has also written books for magicians.

The park also boasted a small open-air theatre – " The Concert " – near the café which featured singers, magicians and talent contests to entertain local children during the summer holidays.

He also starred in a couple of Tales from the Crypt productions, including Tales From the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight, where he plays a henchman of Satan called The Collector, and the episode " Well-Cooked Hams ", where he plays a poorly skilled magician who kills to steal good tricks from other magicians.

Since then, the Chinese linking rings have also become a favourite performance item for close-up magicians.

Glubbdubdrib ( also spelled Glubdubdrib or Glubbdubdribb in some editions ) was an island of sorcerers and magicians, one of the imaginary countries visited by Lemuel Gulliver in the satire Gulliver's Travels by Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift.

However, perhaps " the most influential vehicle for the dissemination of high magic to a wider audience was, in fact, Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft ", a book first published in the early seventeenth century in which Scot condemned the cunning folk as liars and tricksters, but in which he had also provided a wide variety of talismans, charms and rituals as examples of what the cunning folk and ceremonial magicians performed.

The belief in similarly-minded conjurers also exists in belief systems in which magic is not inherently evil, although in these cultures these " black magicians " are not the rule and have opposition among more traditional magicians.

Artists who participate in performing arts in front of an audience are called performers, including actors, comedians, dancers, magicians, musicians, and singers.

In early 2007, Geller hosted a reality show in Israel called The Successor (), where the contestants supposedly displayed supernatural powers ; Israeli magicians criticized the program saying that it was all magic tricks.

Among the various pseudepigraphic texts called " Book of Jasher " the 16th Century Hebrew Sefer haYashar ( midrash ) (( first edition 1552, later popular among early Mormons ) mentions the magicians.

Despite tremendous individual variation, chaos magicians ( sometimes called " chaotes ") often work with chaotic and humorous paradigms, such as the worship of Hundun from Taoism or Eris from Discordianism.

Some chaos magicians like to operate in what is sometimes called a meta-paradigm.

Usually these fierce female shamans will eradicate or fight non-shaman shape shifter humans who are called false sorcerers and dark magicians.

Important musical traditions in Turkmen music include traveling singers and shamans called bakshy, who act as healers and magicians and sing either a cappella or with instruments such as the two-stringed lute called dutar.

The magicians ( called haut-rêvants, highdreamers ) were powerful, but they manipulated amounts of dream energy far beyond their skills.

Magic is effected through the use of spells, magical apparatus, or magical creatures called Sandestins, that magicians can somehow compel to do their bidding.

* Similarly, in City of Villains a massive graveyard called " Potter's Field " is a place where zombies spawn, while magicians use the area for necromantic rituals.

" The latter interrupts a funeral procession the Chang Sing are having for their recently assassinated leader and, during the ensuing street battle, powerful magicians in league with the Wing Kong, called " The Three Storms " ( Thunder, Rain, and Lightning ), use their supernatural powers to slaughter the Chang Sing.

* Mait ' Carrefour-Haitian god of magicians and lord of the crossroads, also called Kalfu.

In the earlier games, magicians had spells, whereas fighters had special physical attacks called " Killer Moves "; both are learned after passing certain level requirements ( or through specific items and sidequests ) and cost HP or MP to use.

The first one The Magician ’ s Apprentice ( stand-alone ), a prequel to the Black Magician Trilogy, centring around a young magician called Tessia, who braves prejudices about female magicians and has to fight off the threat of the neighbouring kingdom of Sachaka.

This is called misdirection by magicians.

In the text the magicians are called Jamnes and Mambres as opposed to Jannes and Jambres.

Many Liavekans have invested their luck in the city — the city is called " the city of luck " for this reason — but the powerful professional magicians live on Wizard's Row.

First popularized in the West among stage magicians, the art of throwing cards was called scaling.

A setting based on the harsh desert world of Athas, that draws heavy inspiration from novels like Dune and the Barsoom series, which was once a lush planet teeming with life, but which has since been stripped of its fertility by uncontrolled use of defiling magic, although a small minority of magicians called preservers work to maintain life and ultimately restore the primeval lushness.