![]() ![]() Lyblæca – Anglo-Saxon, Wizard or Sorcerer, root lybb meaning drug.Lybbestre – Anglo-Saxon, Female magic user.Inyanga – From Zulu, a type of Sangoma who uses concoctions of plants and animal parts to heal. ![]() Incantor – One who incants (to chant magical or ritual words) shares the same root as enchanter, Latin incantāre – to consecrate with spells.Hexer/Hexe – German, Male and female witch respectively.Galdra – Icelandic, Person who does magic.An Enchantress is often a fairy tail witch. An Enchanter may be the male form of Enchantress, or someone (gender neutral) who creates enchanted objects. Enchantress/Enchanter – Cognate but not always used the same.Elementalist – A spellcaster who specialises in or is limited to manipulating the elements (classical or otherwise).Modern conceptions are based on Neo-Druidic movement in the Victorian age, and the term was later adopted by many RPGs as a kind of nature mage. Druids filled the role of a priest, lawmaker, historian and medicine man in Celtic culture. Druid – A priest of the pre-Roman celtic religion.Sometimes just any mage (i.e: one who conjures magic). Conjurer – Either a synonym of Summoner, or an entertainer or minor prestidigitator.Carlin stone is the name of several prehistoric standing stones believed to have potentially magical significance. Related to the Gaelic Cailleach, a divine hag in folklore. Carline / Carlin – A Lowlands Scots word meaning old woman, witch.Bruixeria is the word for the magic of a bruixa. Bruixa – A Catalan word for witches, usually feminine.Brujería refers to the path of magic and the spiritualist beliefs of a brujo (masculine) or bruja (feminine). Brujo/Bruja – A Spanish language word for a shaman or magic user.Bokor – A voodoo witch for hire who deals with both good and bad spirits.Elder Scrolls use the word to mean a coven leader. Beldame/Beldam – A Middle English word, originally meaning ‘grandmother’ but also sometimes also for a hag or magical old woman.Originally meant someone who knew a secret of a manufacturing process. Arcanist – A practitioner of magic, often a craftsman of magical objects.It developed into a mystical system later on, and has been popularised by recent fantasy literature to mean one who creates potions. ![]() It evolved into attempts to transmute metal in the early middle ages. Originally a scientific and philosophical view, early alchemists were scientists and philosophers who sought to learn about the makeup of the world.
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