By Rob Bricken for io9.com

If you think magic is just for Dungeons & Dragons players and Criss Angel, you’re sadly mistaken. Magic is totally real, and was totally practiced by totallyreal people who lived in history! Here are just 10 real-life wizards and sorcerers who used magic for a lot more than just party tricks.

1) Nicholas Flamel

This 13th-century scribe was known throughout Paris for his fine manuscripts, but it took a few centuries for people to realize (i.e., apocryphally attribute) a few books of alchemy to Flamel. These books included an introduction which casually mentioned that Flamel had also created the Philosopher’s Stone, a magic item that could turn lead into gold, after researching a mysterious book in an unknown language he had purchased and deciphered. Not bad!

2) Roger Bacon

A 14th-century monk was one of the leading scientific minds of his day, figuring out how to fit Aristotle’s philosophy and scientific theory into Christianity—no small feat—which he actually sent to the Pope! He’s considered to have figured out the ingredients of gunpowder, and was a leading researcher of optics and lenses. He was also said to have predicted cars, planes, and submarines. Admittedly, all of this was probably easier since he was also said to have a giant talking robot head that could answer any question someone asked it.. Read more at:

http://io9.com/10-historical-people-who-were-real-life-magicians-1730091319

FATECASTER.com recently published a similar article featuring 23 well known folks who secretly or openly practiced and/or believed in the occult… Interesting read..  https://fatecaster.com/2017/11/23/revealing-the-secret-life-of-the-23-most-famous-occult-people/