And with his grimy euchre-deck he kept his word, showing that he was not the mere handy-man, but the magician of the party.

Although, indeed, Pliny spoke of the folly of the magicians in using the catanance (Greek: katanhankae, compulsion) for love-potions, on account of its shrinking "in drying into the shape of the claws of a dead kite," and so holding the patient fast; yet this primitive idea, after the lapse of centuries, was as fully credited as in the early days when it was originally started.

"Put on your most beautiful dress," he said to her, "and receive the magician with smiles, leading him to believe that you have forgotten me.

"Now I know," cried Aladdin, "that we have to thank the African magician for this!

"You have all seen ordinary magicians at work making eggs disappear up their sleeves," went on the stage manager.

Therefore he gathered the people of the village, and told them that he had uttered his mightiest spella spell having power over all that were human or of the tribes of the beasts; and that since it had not availed the dreams must come from Gaznak, the greatest magician among the spaces of the stars.

" [Footnote 1: Snowdon] Then the magicians by their lots and divinationsthough, for that matter, it may well be that they lieddevised that the king should seek a man born of no earthly father, him he must slay, and taking of his blood, slake and temper therewith the mortar of the work, so that the foundations should be made fast, and the castle might endure.

I have but to sever the wicked head of this doomed magician from his foul body, and that will be the end of him" "No, no," says Miramon, soothingly, "I shall merely be turned into something else, which perhaps we had better not discuss.

She turned and watched this magician beside her; his bridle-arm lifted, the leather held lightly as a pencil; laughing, asking nothing, needing not to ask.

He then told the magician about the Queen's museum, and how it had happened that he had come there with the robbers.

The truth seems to be, that Pharoah conceived Moses and Aaron to be magicians like his own.

It is possible that a sympathetic student may get closer to the all-embracing and all-daring genius of the magician through these drawings than if he had before him an elaborate work in fresco or in oils.