Magician
This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Magician” in public source text or archive coding. It preserves a discovery term without treating the label as proof, a biological category, or a claim that distinct cultural traditions are interchangeable.
- Search-ready records
- 11
- Public sources
- 2
- States / territories
- 1
- Dated span
- 1842–1897
Terminology belongs to the cited public sources and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.
Public records
- magician in Australian fairy tales#2388ess. You cannot see me, I am invisible,” replied the voice. “Indeed!” ejaculated Bob, “that is a pity. However, I will return to you what I found upon one condition.” “What condition?” “Tell me who you are.” “Alas! I am…
- magician in Australian fairy tales#2387furniture and bare walls, vanish altogether from my outward senses. It is late. On this long winter night I have been deep into the pages of the famous astronomer, Newton; and although I have laid down the book before m…
- magician in Australian fairy tales#2386. Twilight is a region of enchantment, dear readers. Dame Trot, the witch of the Leap Frog Ranges, had fallen across the young Prince while hunting in the mountains, and had changed him into a Gorilla. Such he had remai…
- magician in Australian fairy tales#2385anches intertwining overhead formed a leafy canopy for many miles. On the third day Grapple and his companion emerged upon a wide, extensive plain. Towering in the distance, like a pyramid, they observed a gigantic rock…
- magician in Australian fairy tales#1502. Twilight is a region of enchantment, dear readers. Dame Trot, the witch of the Leap Frog Ranges, had fallen across the young Prince while hunting in the mountains, and had changed him into a Gorilla. Such he had remai…
- magician in Australian fairy tales#1501anches intertwining overhead formed a leafy canopy for many miles. On the third day Grapple and his companion emerged upon a wide, extensive plain. Towering in the distance, like a pyramid, they observed a gigantic rock…
- magician in Australian fairy tales#1493are far beyond the ‘Lubra Mountains,’ but I have fallen into the power of a wicked magician, who has confined me on the highest summit of the Granite Cliff. Every day I am allowed to bathe in the lake accompanied by an…
- magician in Australian fairy tales#1492robed in a superb hunting costume of the country. The gaze of Bi-ba-be-bi had no sooner rested upon him than she sprang from the midst of her ladies with a glad cry of recognition, and cast herself upon his bosom. “Prin…
- magician in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia#2093and so on, until the surface reaches to a level with the upper ground ; and finally sand or earth is strewed over the top. Whilst all that is above described is going on, the magician, or Bolyagadak, of the tribe, sits…
- magician in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia#2091ern men ; as also the ciaunt, or tune, if it may be BO called, to which the dniice is performed. The dfluoo is generally performed by the young men. Women saldom take any part in it. Their dances frequently represent »f…
- magician in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia#2090lled D-yuar. Moro BOO 16 BOK fresh boughs are then heaped upon the body ; then stout stakes are laid lengthways; then cross pieces pressed firmly into the sides; and then boughs again, and so on, until the surface reach…