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  • If I were asked in a few words to describe the characters, Zero looks like a young Brad Pitt with bad hair, Magus is a very dark, goth version of Danny Partridge, only cooler, Kleo looks like a red-headed version of the stalker neighbor on 2 ½ Men – and Eve is Rosanna, who looks a lot of different ways in the film, and is very difficult to put into words that matter.

    GODHEAD THE MOVIE AND PREQUELS deep_bluze 2005

  • He was a native of the village of Gitta, who was renowned for his abilities as a magician hence his title of Magus.

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

  • He was a native of the village of Gitta, who was renowned for his abilities as a magician hence his title of Magus.

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

  • The Magus was the first really difficult work that I really got on a level beyond just the plot when I read it at about the age of 17, and Fowles' work in a peculiar way underlined my young adulthood.

    John Fowles, RIP intertext 2005

  • The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and, in particular, of all forms of rationalism of his time (he lived and died in the eighteenth century) was Johann Georg Hamann, who came to be known as the Magus of the North.

    The Magus of the North Berlin, Isaiah 1993

  • He'd called Magus aside, given him time to set the trap at the ford by that drawn-out journey, set up this prison ...

    The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988

  • And it is to wit that this name Magus hath three significations.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900

  • Sorcerer, or Simon, called Magus or the Magician, entitle them to rank above the class of impostors who assumed a character to which they had no real title, and put their own mystical and ridiculous pretensions to supernatural power in competition with those who had been conferred on purpose to diffuse the gospel, and facilitate its reception by the exhibition of genuine miracles.

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Walter Scott 1801

  • This "Magus" extends to them the cup of self-love.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

  • Barret's "Magus," Paracelsus, the black-letter edition of Reginald Scot,

    Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

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