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7 Wizards… or are they all the same guy?

mentalfloss.com — We like our wizards to fit a certain mold. They seem to have the same characteristics in many of our classic adventure tales. A wizard trains or mentors the young protagonist (to whom he is not related), has knowledge unavailable to the general public which was passed down from long ago, uses supernatural powers...

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  • angusm, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3Read Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces". One of the recurrent elements of what he called the 'monomyth' - the story of the hero's journey that provides the basic framework for many of our myths and stories - is the mentor, often in the form of an old wise man, who gives the hero what he needs to accomplish his destiny. The authors of these stories are just reproducing this archetype (usually consciously).
  • shutaro, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1Missing the Wwwyzzerdd...
  • mentallyinhell, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1Effin a...
  • xhawkbc, on 05/14/2008, -1/+0how about god?
  • born2slippy, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2David Blaine
    Mentors: jesus.
    Knowledge: log(1).
    Supernatural powers: none, like his mentor.
    White beard: never.
    Fights: like a girl.
    • Daz3, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Isn't a wizard, Derren Brown on the other hand...
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