the magician
Performer of tricks
The magician is the person performing magic tricks—the one with the top hat, the cards, the disappearing assistant.
The definite article signals a specific role: The magician asked for a volunteer from the audience.
It may also refer to a particular famous practitioner or a character in a story: The Magician was Ingmar Bergman's 1958 film.
- wizardPractitioner of sorcery
- illusionMisleading sensory impression
- trickDeliberate deception
- card trickIllusion using playing deck
- wandThin ceremonial stick
top hat · cards · rabbit · hat · sleight · conjurer · sorcerer · prestidigitation · cape · audience · vanish · tarot · arcana · mystical · smoke · mirrors · smoke and mirrors · assistant
- Tarottarot, tarot cards, tarot reading, major arcana, arcana