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- Saruman — 'The Lord of the Rings' (2001-2003) Middle Earth has several powerful beings, but few can match Saruman's might. Arguably the most powerful being behind the Dark Lord Sauron, Saruman the White is the leader of the Istari Wizards and a servant of Sauron.
- Lord Voldemort — 'Harry Potter' (2001-2011) Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes plays Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series. Known throughout the Wizarding World as the most powerful dark wizard to have ever lived, Voldemort strikes fear in the hearts of every wizard and witch, to the point where they are terrified to even speak his name,
- Doctor Facilier — 'The Princess And The Frog' (2008) The Princess and the Frog marked Disney's return to traditional hand-drawn animation. Loosely based on the Brothers Grimm's tale "The Frog Prince," the film follows Tiana, an ambitious woman in New Orleans who becomes a frog after kissing a prince turned into a frog by a powerful witch doctor.
- Jafar — 'Aladdin' (1993) Aladdin is one of the best movies of 1992, a charming and dazzling tale of magic and one of Disney's most beloved classics. Adapted from the famous Arabic folktale, the plot follows the titular character, a street thief who uses a magic lamp to pretend to be a prince and earn Princess Jasmine's love.
Evil Sorcerer. Abra Ka-dead! Charactered in the face." The Evil Sorcerer is the living (or occasionally undead) proof of the maxim that power corrupts and that absolute power corrupts absolutely. They're the mage who has delved too deeply into Things Man Was Not Meant to Know and mastered The Dark Arts.
- 10Abe No Seimei
- 9The Sorcerer of Trois-Freres
- 8The Black Constable
- 7Rabbi Judah Loew Ben Bezalel
- Cyprian
- 5The Magician of Marblehead
- 4John of Nottingham
- 3Michael Scot
- 2Roger Bolingbroke
- 1Edward Kelly
Abe no Seimei was the Japanese Merlin. However, unlike the European wizard, Seimei’s historical existence goes unchallenged. He served six different emperors as an omyodo, a yin-yang master. The court wizard oversaw matters of divination, protecting the Japanese emperor with rituals to banish evil spirits and illnesses. Legends and folktales ascrib...
The Sorcerer of Trois-Freres, France is one of the earliest depictions of sorcery in human history. The figure presides over a series of Paleolithic cave paintings. It sits above the other cave paintings in an area only accessible by ascending a spiral corridor. He is a mix of man and animal, with human limbs, a pronounced penis, and an animal body...
Charleston, South Carolina has a long history of voodoo, and its deadliest voodoo sorcerer was named John Domingo. He was a peculiar-looking man—strong, unkempt, and often clad in an old Union Army coat. He wore a silver ring in the shape of a serpent that he claimed could raise the dead. This supposed necromancer used his undead to enforce his own...
Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel was a scholar and mystic known as the Maharal of Prague. The respected figure, according to legend, was often sought out by the Holy Roman Emperor for both religious and secular knowledge. Though his relationship with the emperor was perhaps not as close as legends say, the two were on good terms. Emperor Rudolph II own...
Legend says that St. Cyprian was a magician of Antioch in league with the devil. At the request of an amorous young man, he conjured a demon to arouse the maiden Justina so that the youth could seduce her. Justina recognized the attack on her sanctity and defeated the demon by making the sign of the cross. His magic thwarted, Cyprian summoned the d...
A resident of Little Harbor, Marblehead in Massachusetts, Edward “John” Dimond was feared as an alternately benevolent and malevolent sorcerer. He was born sometime around the Salem witch trials, and his eccentric behavior was likely tolerated due to the stigma against witchcraft accusations following the hysteria. Dimond was said to go into trance...
In 1324, the citizens of Coventry, England were suffering under the oppressive rule of the local prior and two chamberlains of King Edward II, a father and son both named Hugh Despenser. In revenge, the citizens hired a local wizard to kill the prior, his accomplices, and the king they served. According to the story, the magician John of Nottingham...
Michael Scot was one of the most influential European intellectuals of the 13th century. Unfortunately for him, history remembers him as not a scholar but a sorcerer. Scot had a fascination with the occult and treated it with just as much enthusiasm as more orthodox subjects. He studied in Toledo, a Spanish city then under occupation by the Moors, ...
Bolingbroke was a 15th-century priest connected to the Duke of Gloucester. He was accused of being involved in a plot to kill the king with black magic. He had an interest in astronomy and was said to have used the art to divine whether the Duke’s wife would become the Queen of England. The king himself, Henry VI, was heirless. Had he died, the thr...
Edward Kelly was the personal scryer of John Dee, a famed 16th-century British occultist. He joined Dee’s service soon after his former scryer, Barnabas Saul, removed himself from the post. Kelly used an obsidian mirror that he said received messages from angels. Dee thought Kelly’s scrying revealed fantastic supernatural knowledge, including the a...
Dark sorcery, more commonly known as "witchcraft" or "Morgul magic" by the Free Peoples of the World, was the practice of dark magic for evil purposes. Sorcerors in Arda were mostly servants of the Dark Lords Melkor and Sauron. Before his defeat, the Dark Lord Morgoth (simply known as Melkor) had used dark sorcery in his fortress of Utumno and later Angband. He was most infamous for his ...
Jul 14, 2011 · The Nefarious Wizards. 1. Sauron. By Ishaan Tharoor Thursday, July 14, 2011. Those who know J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth purely through The Lord of the Rings movies could be fooled into thinking that its main evil sorcerer is Saruman the White, the once pre-eminent mage who hatches an unnatural, beastly army to crush the world of men.
Sep 21, 2024 · Gandalf. Image from IGN. One of the main characters in The Lord of the Rings, he also went by the names Gandalf the Gray and later, Gandalf the White. One of the wizards sent to Middle-earth by the Valar during the Third Age, he has the role of uniting the people against the evil of Sauron.
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Apr 11, 2024 · The Evil Sorcerer is the living (or occasionally undead) proof of the maxim that power corrupts and that absolute power corrupts absolutely. He, or sometimes she, is the mage who has delved too deeply into Things Man Was Not Meant to Know and mastered The Dark Arts. He has achieved great power, but at the expense of his soul.
