A Book of Wizards Author:Ruth Manning-Sanders Every country in the world has stories to tell about wizards. There are Indian wizards, and Chinese wizards, African wizards, English Wizards, Celtic wizards, Greek, Italian, Arabian and Persian wizards. Wizards often go about disguised as poor old beggars, to test men's characters. One such beggar-man-wizard you will find here in the Hungarian ... more »story of The Silver Penny, another in the Tyrolean story Gold, and yet another in Rich Woman, Poor Woman, a story that comes from Flanders. Many wizards have a sense of humor. They like to enjoy themselves. The wizard Auto, in the Afican story of The Two Wizards, is out for fun and nothing else. And in the Welsh story of Jack and the Wizard, one can almost hear the wizard chuckling to himself as he sets Jack his impossible-seeming tasks.« less