Viewer asks: who was the first wizard in a story or film?

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA viewer named Brad asks on bbn dot live: what was the first wizard ever in a movie or a story?

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentNo single answer, but one of the oldest is Djedi, a magician in ancient Egyptian tales on the Westcar Papyrus, a manuscript about three and a half thousand years old.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA sage. A healer. A mentor to kings.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHis big moment is cutting the head off a goose and putting it back on, so the pharaoh would stop being bored.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'd call that a restorative wellness demonstration for senior leadership.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's a palace reaction video.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd in movies, the earliest wizards were stage magicians like Georges Méliès, making people vanish with camera tricks in the eighteen-nineties.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorPalace reaction video. No, stop, I'm not encouraging this. The word wizard literally means wise one.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWise one came later, Merlin got the robes. Djedi had the goose.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorVerdict: Djedi, roughly three thousand five hundred years ago, with honors.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAsk us anything at bbn dot live. Vera, he fixed a goose for a pharaoh. That's a closer, Vera, not a wise one.