Medieval writers transformed tales of an obscure bard into legends of a mighty wizard who put ... Jean Cocteau turned Merlin the Magician into a cruel and manipulate old man in The Knights of ...

In Cursed, Merlin is, to be blunt, a world-weary mess. Stripped of his magic and overly fond of alcohol, this character seems the furthest thing possible from an all-knowing, all-powerful wizard.

Merlin, the most famous fictional wizard of them all ... a bloody fight between the native people of Y Gogledd, or the "old North" of Britain, and an invading Irish army. "The sources tell ...