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With his sword, superhuman strength, and loyal friends, He-Man defends Eternia and the secrets of Castle Grayskull from the forces of the evil sorcerer Skeletor.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
15 June 2025 -
In a far-off city, all our heroes teamed up to defeat an invading empire and kill the evil immortal sorcerer guiding their invasion, all while exorcising their own various demons or taking on some new ones.—
Sean T. Collins,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2025
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On a recent afternoon, comedic magician Justin Willman sits in a plush, burgundy velvet chair fit for a wizard, soaking in the gravitas of a place known for carrying sacred magic texts signed by Harry Houdini.—
Nate Jackson,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2025
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Having not yet won a gold at the Olympics, Felix hires track-and-field magician Bob Kersee and wins a gold and then another and another at London Olympics.—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
11 June 2025
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While the snail that had given rise to Ziconotide, Conus magus, was easy to collect in shallow water, Ramiro had her sights set on a lineage of cone snails that preferred deeper, darker depths.—
Gabe Allen,
Discover Magazine,
14 Apr. 2022
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But, for the Arensberg chronicle, the cardinal point is their friendship—the French magus and the gamier avatar of Henry James’s Daisy Miller.—
Peter Schjeldahl,
The New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2022
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Turns out the island's rotting dead are rising from the grave—the result of a voodoo curse.—
James Grebey,
Time,
20 June 2025
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Swinford allegedly wanted to carry out an attack during Mardi Gras at the voodoo temple.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
12 June 2025
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Like Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum and other great enchanters before him, Miyazaki, now 82, delights in ushering us, alongside his young heroines and heroes, into ravishing storybook worlds that are at once scarily unquantifiable and eerily recognizable.—
Justin Chang,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Nov. 2023
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It’s been generations since the rise of Dark Lord Morgoth, but armies led by the likes of Morfydd Clark’s Galadriel have been fighting Morgoth and his legions, including bloodthirsty orcs and the powerful enchanter Sauron.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
31 Aug. 2022
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Try, try again Speaking of classes, the eight options here tend to fall into the usual archetypes for this kind of action-adventure game: the tank, the mage, the defensive specialist, the dextrous dodger, etc.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 May 2025
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When supernatural events threaten the town of Owl’s Hollow, Charlie, the owner of the local spell shop, and Fitz, a mage business mogul, must put their rivalry aside to save the magical enclave.—
Ashley Poston,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
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One woman asked a witch to cast a love spell on a man, only for the witch to DM her target and rat her out.—
Meredith Wilshere,
People.com,
22 June 2025
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Centuries earlier, she might have been labeled a witch.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
18 June 2025
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Smoke reconnects, in one of the film’s most lusty moments (there are quite a few), with Annie (Wunmi Mosaku), an old flame who’s also a Hoodoo conjurer.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
11 Apr. 2025
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The most captivating of the three love stories is Smoke’s reunion with Annie (Wunmi Mosaku), a Hoodoo conjurer and Orisha spiritual healer who runs a small plantation store, where their infant son is buried outside under an oak tree.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Occultist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/occultist. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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