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Merlin is the deuteragonist of Disney's 1963 animated feature film The Sword in the Stone. Regarded as the world’s most powerful wizard, Merlin tasks himself in educating a young boy named Arthur. Though wise in his own right, Merlin's absentmindedness tends to complicate his teachings—especially in the eyes of his crotchety familiar, Archimedes. Merlin is a wizard of unspecified origin who is first seen living in a forest cottage. It is unknown how he acquired his pet owl, Archimedes…

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Merlin is a mythical figure prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur and best known as an enchanter or wizard. His usual depiction, based on an amalgamation of historic and legendary figures, is believed that combined earlier tales of Myrddin and Ambrosius, two legendary Briton prophets with no connection to Arthur, to form the composite figure called Merlinus Ambrosius. Merlin's traditional biography casts him as a cambion, a being born of a mortal man, sired by an incubus, from...

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Merlin is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in Arthurian legend. Merlin's traditional biography casts him as a cambion: born of a mortal woman, sired by an incubus, the non-human from whom he inherits his supernatural powers and abilities. The name of Merlin's mother is not usually stated but is given as Adhan in the oldest version of the Prose Brut. Merlin matures to an ascendant sagehood and engineers the birth of Arthur through magic and intrigue. Later authors have...

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