So it seems that the word ‘wizard’ was actually derived from the Middle English word ‘wysard’, from ‘wis’, ‘wys’, or, eventually, ‘wise’. At least that is what someone told me a long time ago…
It was also advised to me that the word, then, relates to either one of the following traits:
• a person with a high degree of knowledge or skill in a particular field;
• a person who practices magic; like a sorcerer or magician;
• a sage;
• a person who possess characteristics appropriate to supernatural power.
I wonder why we don’t consider wizardry a profession, if it also refers to a person with a high degree of knowledge or skill in a particular field?
Or why a person like Charles Manson is not addressed to as wizard Manson? Is or was he not highly skillful in motivating murderous rampages?
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