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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Magic

Posted on October 21, 2021 by Nathan

The word “magic,” with or without the K at the end that Aleister Crowley preferred, derives from “magus,” a term for a Zoroastrian priest. I’ve seen indications that it might have referred to a specific tribe or caste. When the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged aaron, aleister crowley, balaam, bible, demons, exodus, fantasy, jannes and jambres, jesus, king saul, magicians, miracles, moses, priests, prophets, salem witch trials, satan, simon magus, sorcerers, st. peter, witch of endor, witches, wizards | 1 Comment

You Oughta Be in Pictures

Posted on August 20, 2021 by Nathan

When I wrote my review of The Wonder City of Oz, Marc Berezin mentioned that he thought John R. Neill had written some of it to make use of pre-existing art. Repurposing his art is definitely a thing Neill did; … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Celtic, Characters, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bears, betsy bobbin, captain salt, cayke the cookie cook, comfortable camel, davy jones the wooden whale, dorothy gale, emerald city, fairies, firefly fairies, glinda of oz, guardian of the gates, jellia jamb, jenny jump, jinjur, john dough and the cherub, kabumpo, kelpies, lake quad, leprechauns, lucky bucky in oz, mushrooms, nomes, number nine, ojo in oz, omby amby, ozma, ozoplanes, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, peg amy, princess marygolden, professor wogglebug, psychopompus, sir hokus of pokes, snufferbux, sorcerers, spy-ders, the baum bugle, the runaway in oz, the scalawagons of oz, the voice of bong, the wonder city of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok, trot griffiths, wizard of oz | 3 Comments

Sorting Out Sorcery

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Nathan

One running theme in Glinda of Oz is that there are several different types of magic in Oz, all of which have their specialties, but none of them can do everything. L. Frank Baum contrasts the fairy magic of Ozma … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemy, Characters, Etymology, Games, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Theosophy | Tagged abrog, akbad, belfaygor, blinkie, conjo, cookywitches, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dr. pipt, dungeons and dragons, fanny the weather witch, flatheads, gayelette, glinda, glinda and the red jinn, glinda of oz, good witch of the north, gorba, grampa in oz, great book of records, gwig, handy mandy in oz, imperial squawmos, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kadj the conjurer, krumbic witch, magicians, mangaboos, miserable mesmerizer, mombi, mooj, necromancers, ojo in oz, oz magic, oziana, ozma, ozwoz, paul dana, peter brown, pirates in oz, potaroo, prophecy, queen coo-ee-oh, red jinn, robert pattrick, rora flathead, soob the sorcerer, soothsayers, sorcerers, speedy in oz, supreme dictator of the flatheads, the cowardly lion of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the runaway in oz, the scarecrow of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, three adepts at magic, ugu the shoemaker, unexplored territory in oz, waddy, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz, wizard of wutz, wizards, wozards, wumbo, yookoohoos | Leave a comment

Baum’s Diamond Swan Song

Posted on July 14, 2020 by Nathan

In the past three years, I’d gotten into the habit of rereading the main Oz book of focus before OzCon, which was canceled this year. I still intended to read Glinda of Oz, but I’d been putting it off because … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology | Tagged bungle the glass cat, button-bright, dorothy gale, ervic, fairies, flatheads, gillikins, glinda, glinda of oz, great book of records, jack pumpkinhead, krumbic witch, lady aurex, magic belt, mrs. yoop, ozcon international, ozma, patchwork girl, pigs, queen coo-ee-oh, reera the red, rora flathead, skeezers, sorcerers, spiders, supreme dictator of the flatheads, swans, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the royal book of oz, the tin woodman of oz, three adepts at magic, witches, wizards, yookoohoos | 2 Comments

A Koschei Deal

Posted on August 8, 2018 by Nathan

Her Majesty’s Wizard, by Christopher Stasheff – I saw this book on a list of recommendations somewhere, and I didn’t realize at the time that the author had just died in June. This is the first book of the Wizard … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Catholicism, Christianity, Diana Wynne Jones, Fairy Tales, History, Magic, Mythology, Nursery Rhymes, october daye, Religion, Russian, seanan mcguire, Slavic | Tagged a wizard in rhyme, an artificial night, baba yaga, blind michael, buyan, catherynne valente, christopher stasheff, daniel horne, deathless, deep secret, divine right, dragons, fairies, fletcher pratt, harold shea, her majesty's wizard, herne the hunter, koschei the deathless, l. sprague de camp, luidaeg, marya morevna, matthew mantrell, princess alisande, russian revolution, satan, sorcerers, werewolves, wild hunt, witches, wizards, world war ii | 2 Comments

Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earthsea

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Nathan

Ursula K. LeGuin’s first book in the Earthsea series, A Wizard of Earthsea, is nearly fifty years old at this point. My reading of these books has been a bit sporadic, as I received the original trilogy as a kid … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Gender, Magic, Names, Ursula K. LeGuin | Tagged a wizard of earthsea, dragons, earthsea, ged, sorcerers, tales from earthsea, tehanu, tenar, the farthest shore, the other wind, the tombs of atuan, witches, wizards | 3 Comments

Turtle Power, of the Magic Variety

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Nathan

If you remember the instruction booklet for the original Super Mario Bros., you may recall that the Koopa tribe was “famous for their black magic,” and Bowser identified as a “sorcerer king.” Not that any of the Koopas really used … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Magic, Mario, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged black magic, kamek, king bowser koopa, koopa capers, koopa troopas, koopalings, koopas, magic wands, magikoopas, nintendo adventure books, sorcerers, super mario bros., super mario bros. 3, super mario rpg, super mario world, the adventures of super mario bros. 3, the great mission to rescue princess peach, toad, toads, wendy o. koopa, wizzrobe, yoshi's island | 2 Comments

The Wizards of Obscurity

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Nathan

In addition to the magicians I mentioned before, there are also a fair number of magic-workers in Oz and its neighbors who aren’t at all well-known. In fact, they’re often only known for one deed. It’s certainly possible they did … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Oz | Tagged fyordi-zik, glinda, loremaster, mombi, ozma, sorcerers, spellbinders, tommy kwikstep, ugu, witches, wizards | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: sorcerers

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Magic

Sorting Out Sorcery

Baum’s Diamond Swan Song

A Koschei Deal

Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earthsea

Turtle Power, of the Magic Variety

The Wizards of Obscurity

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