Merlin has intrigued people the world over since he was first introduced in the 12th century, through the pages of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae. The powerful but doomed magician of ...

Medieval manuscript fragments discovered in a set of 16th-century books have revealed long-lost tales of Merlin, the Magician. Merlin is one of the key characters in the legend of King Arthur and ...

Medieval manuscript fragments discovered in Bristol that tell part of the story of Merlin the magician, one of the most famous characters from Arthurian legend, have been identified by academics from ...

Two of Shakespeare’s most famous plays deal with the intersection of magic and political power. “Macbeth” shows the dark side: An ambitious leader, fed prophetic temptations by a trio of witchy “weird ...