* An Ordinary Miracle and its remake, a fairy-tale love story about a bear who has been transformed into a man by a wizard, and must be kissed by a princess to return to his original form.

This character is often a formidable wizard or warrior, who provides the main character with advice and help.

A central character in the PC role-playing game Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura was named Nasrudin, an Elf wizard who was renowned for his great wisdom.

After escaping from some goblins who intended to eat him, he discovers that he has been brought on a quest to rescue the wizard Calypso from the evil sorcerer Sordid.

"... evil has been comfortably externalized in a villain ," Le Guin writes, " the wizard Kumo / Cob, who can simply be killed, thus solving all problems.

Magi belong to one of the houses of the Order of Hermes, a society founded by the wizard Bonisagus who created a consistent way to describe magic, allowing Magi to share information, and the Parma Magica, a magical shield which allows a measure of protection against hostile magics ( and, in some cases, non-hostile magics as well ) which allowed Magi to trust each other.

Instead of a group of eight companions based in the Obsidian Citadel who left periodically to fight evil, the Circle became eight wizards led by a ninth wizard, Gygax's former character Mordenkainen.

The practice of magic was banned in the Roman world, and the Codex Theodosianus states: If any wizard therefore or person imbued with magical contamination who is called by custom of the people a magician ... should be apprehended in my retinue, or in that of the Caesar, he shall not escape punishment and torture by the protection of his rank.

It describes how Harry discovers he is a wizard, makes close friends and a few enemies at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and with the help of his friends thwarts an attempted comeback by the evil wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents when Harry was one year old.

At his side is a mysterious wizard named Julius, who has secret motives.

A wizard, in this case, is a person who claims to be aptly skilled in arts considered hidden or arcane.

The wizard who completed the course and scored a goal in the shortest time, without catching fire along the way, was the winner.

* Brandywine ( dragon ), a female dragon who lives with wizard Darm in The Legend of Kyrandia series of point-and-click adventure games by Westwood Studios

At the very doorstep of Bag End, they meet Sharkey, who is revealed to be the evil wizard Saruman, and his servant Gríma.

The name Gwydion also appears in the Sierra game King's Quest III, where a Prince Alexander of Daventry has been kidnapped by an evil wizard named Manannan who renames him Gwydion.

* The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew ( 1964 )-a children's play, involving a heroic knight, Oblong Fitz-Oblong, sent to slay a vicious dragon on a far-away island, leading him to face off with the crooked Baron Bolligrew, who controls the island, and an evil wizard he recruits to help him.

He is an ancient wizard ( Whiz Comics # 2 gives his age as 3, 000 years ) who gives young Billy Batson the power to transform into the superhero Captain Marvel.

Shazam informs Billy that he is an ancient Egyptian wizard who has been using his powers for many centuries to fight the forces of evil, but that he is now old and not long for this world.

The title wizard is said to be derived from the archaic word " Wys-ars ", meaning one who, at bottom, is very wise.

Rincewind is apparently the only wizard who still remembers the Librarian's name, but has agreed not to tell anyone.

A geeky wizard who works with Ponder Stibbons at the High Energy Magic Building.

The wizard who starts the events of Equal Rites by bequeathing his staff just before his death to, as he thinks, the eighth son of an eighth son, the child of the smith of the village of Bad Ass in Lancre.

In the fictional world of the Harry Potter series, the Death Eaters constitute a group of wizards and witches, led by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, the chief antagonist of the series, who seek to purify the Wizarding community by eliminating the Muggle-borns ( wizards or witches born to non-magical parents ).

In these stories, Gandalf appears as a wizard, member and later the head ( after Saruman's betrayal and fall ) of the order known as the Istari, as well as leader of the Fellowship of the Ring and the army of the West.

It is not news that Nathan Milstein is a wizard of the violin.

This character is an evil wizard or sorcerer, or sometimes a kind of god or demon.

A further link is supplied by the Zulu belief that the magician's familiar is really a transformed human being ; when he finds a dead body on which he can work his spells without fear of discovery, the wizard breathes a sort of life into it, which enables it to move and speak, it being thought that some dead wizard has taken possession of it.

Merlin is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in the Arthurian legend.

Merlin is an important figure in films and television programs, where he functions often as a teacher or mentor figure, a role that he shares with other wizard and wizard-like figures in popular texts, such as Gandalf the White.

In the 2010 film The Sorcerer's Apprentice, modern day New Yorker David Stutler, played by Jay Baruchel, discovers he is the last descendant of Merlin and is trained as a sorcerer by Balthazar Blake, portrayed by Nicolas Cage, a former student of the great wizard, so that he may ultimately do battle with Merlin's old nemesis Morganna, played by Alice Krige.

A main belt asteroid is named Merlin in honour of the legendary wizard.

Celtiberian tradition of Wicca, consisting of Fernando Gonzalez ( source ) in the 80's of the twentieth century from the Hispanic Traditional Witchcraft to which he belongs, is a structured religion through the symbiosis between " traditionalism wizard " ( inciatic and mystery ), the historical reconstructionist ( cultural and archaeological ) and " adaptationism " liturgical ( conditioning ceremonial ) of Hispanic Traditional Witchcraft, paganism, religious worship pre-Christian Celtic and Iberian mainly and those that were previously formed ( shamanism, Neolithic and Paleolithic cults ).

In Saxo Grammaticus ' 12th century work Gesta Danorum, where gods appear euhemerized, Ollerus is described as a cunning wizard with magical means of transportation:

Another game that follows the same format is Arcanists ; focused around a wizard theme, was created by Jagex Games Studio, best known for their MMORPG RuneScape.

In the books the Wizengamot is a wizard council and court, of which Albus Dumbledore is a senior warlock.

* Jebediah of Canaan, better known as the wizard Shazam of DC Comics, is born near the end of the millennium.

A witch or wizard with all magical heritage is called a pure-blood.

Voldemort is also a recurring theme among wizard rock bands.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling and featuring Harry Potter, a young wizard.

Jack kills her in both the warrior and the conjurer routes but as a wizard, he is able to purify her soul, turning her into an innocent and amnesiac version of herself.

The PC confronts and slays him, but is dragged with the wizard into hell, as Irenicus still has his soul, with the rest of the party following.

Their travels are interrupted by the entrances of Nicholas, who is a Slide ( a wizard that is capable of soul stealing and using souls to project himself into animals ).

He was once an ordinary human, but possessed no ability for magic until that Dragon Emperor offered to make him the most powerful wizard alive in exchange for a piece of his soul, though why the Dragon Emperor wanted a part of Koren's soul isn't stated.