Wondrous Wizard Adult Costume
Source: Star Costumes
Cast a spell on your friends this Halloween. When you wear this deluxe Wizard costume everyone will believe you can cast spells - and make their dreams come true.
Perform amazing feats of magic in this deluxe quality Wizard costume for adults! Includes a hat, robe, and wig and beard set.
Wondrous Wizard Adult Costume
$ 149.95
Wizards, magicians, and practitioners of magic by other titles have appeared in myths, folk tales and literature throughout recorded history, and fantasy draws on this background.
They commonly appear in fantasy as mentors and villains, as they did in older works, and more recently as heroes themselves. Although they are often portrayed as wielding great powers, their role in shaping the fantasy world they inhabit varies; much of fantasy literature writes of medieval worlds with wizards in a fairly limited role as guardians or advisors.
The Passing of Merlin
Sunday, January 05, 1896 by Staff Writer
When Tennyson was gathered unto his nurse, it was Alfred Austin who wrote an eulogy, which he aptly called "The Passing of Merlin." in the last verse he predicts, virtually, his own appointment as Tennyson's successor whom he says For ne'er hath England lacked a voice to sing.
A suggestion of the chaste and well polished style of Austin may be obtained through the following verses
"Merlin has gone. Merlin the Wizard, was found
In the Past's glimmering tide and hailed him king—
Arthur, great Dither's son, and so did sing
The mystic stories of the Table Round
That ever Its name will live so long as song shall sound."
"Merita has gone, Merlin who followed the gleam
And made as follow it the fluting tale,
Of the last tournament, the Holy Grail.
And Arthur's passing till the enchantress's dream
Dwells with us still awake no visionary theme."
"So England mourns for Merlin, though it tears
Flow not from bitter source that wells in vain,
But kindred rather to the rippling rain,
That brings the daffodil sheaths and Jonquil spears,
When winter weeps and April reappears."
"For ne'er hath England lacked a voice to sing
Her fairness and her fame, nor will she now,
Silence awhile may brood upon the bough,
But shortly one again the Isle will ring
With wakening once winds of March and rhapsodies of spring"
The Cat Saves the Wizard's Life
August 28, 1911 by Staff Writer
There was once a wonderful wizard who lived close to the borders of Fairyland. A wizard, so the story books say. is a man who can do all sorts of wonderful things merely by saying a few words -- magic words. There are no wizards, I am afraid, except in story books.
Well, one day when this wizard went out into the woods to study up some new magic out of his magic books he came upon a poor frightened kitten which a hungry snake was just about to gobble up alive. The wizard said. 'Away, serpent!' or something like that, and the serpent scuttled into the bushes.
Then he gave the starved little tiling or piece of chicken wing out of his own luncheon. The cat followed him home to his castle and soon was a favorite with the family, for it was as clever and playful a kitten as ever you would wish to see, and the mice and rats simply vanished when pussy got to work catching them.
The wizard wife was delighted. The cat followed the good wizard about like a tame dog. He was a black cat. as a wizard's cat should be. and with the good fare that the wizard's wife provided and the many tidbits that the wizard and the children were fond of feeding to him the cat soon grew fat and sleek. His cleverness, too, was amazing. It seemed there was nothing that pussy could not learn when he put his mind to It.
One day the wizard went into the woods with his books, and puss frisked after him. The old gentleman sat down under a tree, and puss wandered off by herself. The day was warm, and soon the wizard began to nod over his books. The horrid old snake that had tried to kill the cat lived in those woods and was watching back among the bushes.
He thought when the wizard went to sleep he would have a good chance to get even with him for taking away his cat dinner. The snake crept closer and closer, ready to sting the poor wizard in his sleep, when the leaves of the tree rustled overhead, and with a yowl, puss dropped down on the snake. She buried her claws deep in his head and body. Of course there was a big fight, but pussy killed the snake.
The wizard, who wakened in time to see the close of the battle, rewarded puss for saving his life by giving her and all cats ever after the power to land squarely on their feet no matter how they should happen to fall."
