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TopicIYO: What's the difference between a mage warlock enchanter sorcerer etc?
Sahuagin
08/25/22 11:11:36 AM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
About the only real exception is magician, which used to mean the same thing, but now has sort of morphed into only meaning people who do stage magic (ie, fake magic). Which is sort of where terms like illusionist and conjurer have gone as well.
stage magic/"fake" magic is what "magic" always was.

the competing book to Daemonologie was "The Discoverie of Witchcraft" where it was explained how magic users were merely performing slight of hand tricks and not truly doing anything at all supernatural. it explains how some of these tricks worked and how the practitioners would describe their tricks in magical terms, despite them being completely mundane and not at all magical.

King James almost succeeded in burning all copies of this book, but it did survive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discoverie_of_Witchcraft

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