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The magician
I am always thrilled with delight when a magician is around...
As most of the little children I would love to go to a circus with my parents just to watch the magician performing all those smart tricks! Oh, boy, I couldn't even imagine how on earth they manage to
take a rabbit out of their hat!!
He, he!! 
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A magician, of course, is someone who practices magic, the art of
controlling events by the
pretended use of supernatural forces. This name ~magician ~
derives from the "magus", an ancient persian priest and the
cognate "maghdim"
a Chaldean term meaning wisdom and philosophy. Merlin is one of the most well known magicians!! Who was Merlin?
"Merlin was an enchanter and wise man in Arthurian legend and romance of
the Middle Ages, linked with personages in ancient Celtic mythology. He appeared in Arthurian legend as an enigmatic figure. Geoffrey of Monmouth, in Historia regum
Britanniae (c. 1136), adapted a story, told by the Welsh antiquary Nennius, of a boy, Ambrosius, who had given advice to the legendary British king
Vortigern. In Geoffrey's account Merlin-Ambrosius figured as adviser to Uther Pendragon (King Arthur's father) and afterward to
Arthur himself. In a later work, Vita Merlini, Geoffrey
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further
developed the story of Merlin by adapting a northern legend about a wild man of the
woods, gifted with powers of divination. Early
in the 13th
century, Robert de Borron's verse romance Merlin
added a Christian dimension
to
the character, making him
the prophet of the Holy Grail (whose legend had by then been linked with Arthurian legend.The author of the first part of the Vulgate cycle
made the demonic side of Merlin's character predominate, but in
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later branches of the Vulgate cycle, Merlin
again became the prophet of the Holy Grail, while his role as Arthur's counsellor was filled out; it was Merlin, for example, who advised Uther to establish the knightly fellowship
of the Round Table and who suggested that Uther's true heir would be revealed by a test that involved drawing a sword from a stone in which it was set. It also included a story of the wizard's infatuation with the Lady of the
Lake, which eventually brought about his death"
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The above information was found at
Britannica on line!
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I've adopted this cute biker bear just because it made me remember of my visits to the circus... I've seen many brave
bikers riding the Death's Globe...
I was so scared that they might have a serious accident...
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