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The word "conjurer" stretches across a wide literary spectrum, from mystical healers and traditional magic practitioners to cunning stage performers and tricksters. In works like Mooney’s chronicling of Cherokee mythology [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], the conjurer embodies a figure whose supernatural craft is deeply interwoven with ritual and spiritual authority. At the same time, authors such as Ben Jonson employ the term to highlight characters whose deceptive charm or roguish wit borders on the farcical or satirical [6, 7, 8, 9]. Other narratives emphasize the conjurer’s role in physical performance—whipping a bottle from his pocket or producing marvels from an empty hat—to evoke wonder and transformation [10, 11, 12, 13]. Thus, across genres, the conjurer serves as a multifaceted symbol bridging the domains of magic, spectacle, and the interplay between appearance and reality.
  1. [ 518 ] Ĕtăwa′hă-tsistatla′skĭ—“Deadwood-lighter,” a traditional Cherokee conjurer.
    — from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney
  2. Again and once again the conjurer went ahead in his own mysterious fashion to spy out the country, and they followed as he pointed the way.
    — from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney
  3. He at once went home and had the gun exorcised by a conjurer.
    — from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney
  4. On the appointed day the conjurer, at his own home, looks into the crystal and sees there the picture of the party at dinner.
    — from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney
  5. Even the conjurer who keeps it is afraid of it, and changes its hiding place every once in a while so that it can not learn the way out.
    — from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney
  6. Nay, he’s one step of the ladder to preferment higher; he’s a conjurer.’
    — from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson
  7. 5. 188: The conjurer cozened him with a candle’s end; he was an ass.
    — from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson
  8. A good idea of the character of the more disreputable type of conjurer can be got from Beaumont and Fletcher’s Fair Maid of the Inn .
    — from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson
  9. This pernicious slave, Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer, And gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse,
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  10. With the rapidity of a conjurer he whipped from his pocket a small bottle, and held it up before the increasing audience.
    — from Tales of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
  11. The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each.
    — from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  12. I believe Houdin the conjurer used to be very fond of giving it to his child friends, but I cannot say whether he invented the little puzzle or not.
    — from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  13. Holmes stood before us with the air of a conjurer who is performing a trick.
    — from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

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