incantator

plural incantators

1. One who works magic by means of incantation.

   We landed at a place where a woman came to us and said: A scorpion has bitten the chief of the tribe. Is there any incantator amongst you?

   1973, Muslim ibn Ḥajjāj al-Qushayrī, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, →ISBN

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   In the metamorphoses of the ancients, the wolf is conspicuous ; and that demons assume its shape, that sorcerers and incantators alternately pass from the human to the lupine form, is believed by the vulgar throughout Asia and Europe; slightly modified it is a common superstition in Abyssinia, and even among the Caffres.

   1856, Charles Hamilton Smith, The natural history of dogs

   It is obvious that there is a situation of rivalry, since two legs are competing for a road, but the victory of the incantator is ascertained by the fact that flies swarm the excreta.

   2005, Bayo Ogunjimi, Abdul Rasheed Naʼallah, Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance, →ISBN, page 159

   Kitty's mother had been such a black-clothed incantator, full of rhyming recipes for ills and puddings, for scalds and weather and animal magic.

   2012, Melvyn Bragg, The Maid of Buttermere, →ISBN