10 Penyihir Top di Dunia

Penyihir merupakan suatu legenda di dunia, entah benar atau salah. Tapi dari Time.com, ini dia daftar 10 penyihir paling top di dunia, entah itu nyata atau cuma fiksi.

The Wicked Witch of the West

Penyihir Jahat dari barat adalah penyihir paling buruk dari penyihir lainnya. Pada tahun 1939, The Wizard of Oz, yang dimainkan oleh Margaret Hamilton sebagai seorang wanita dengan penampilan menjijikan, berkulit hijau yang tertutup kutil, berpakaian hitam-hitam dari sepatu sampai topi runcing di atas kepalanya. Penampilannya itu, lengkap dengan sapu tua reyot untuk terbangnya tetap menjadi salah satu penyihir yang ditirukan oleh anak-anak saat Hallowen, sebuah karakter yang benar-benar ikonik.

The Witch of Endor

Penyihir ini ada pada jaman alkitab dulu. Menurut 1 Samuel, Saul (Raja pertama Israel) mengkhawatirkan hasil pertempuran sukunya dengan orang-orang Filistin. Jadi meskipun sihir dilarang di kerajaannya, Saul menyamar dan mencari jasa seorang wanita di Endor untuk membangkitkan semangat Samuel (seorang pemimpin Israel kuno), yang memberitahukan bahwa raja dan anak-anaknya akan mati pada hari berikutnya dalam pertempuran. Samuel setengah benar, putra Saul meninggal dan raja bunuh diri.

Baba Yaga

Dalam beberapa catatan Slavia kuno, Baba Yaga adalah seorang wanita tua keriput yang terbang mengendarai lesung dan alunya sebagai kemudi. Dalam cerita Rusia lainnya, penyihir Endor tinggal di sebuah pondok di hutan dikelilingi oleh pagar dari tengkorak dan diikat pada sepasang kaki ayam. Di hampir semua versi, Baba Yaga digambarkan sangat menakutkan, makhluk yang paling cocok untuk menakut-nakuti anak-anak kecil yang berperilaku buruk, karena menurut legenda, ia memiliki kebiasaan menculik dan makan mereka. Nama Baba Yaga berasal dari istilah Slavia untuk wanita tua dan nenek, tetapi beberapa etymologists dan sejarawannya dihubungkan pada cara memuja api tua di Asia Tengah dan tradisi animis dari Siberia.

Macbeth's Three Witches

 "Adil itu curang, dan curang itu adil." dan dimulailah babak I,  adegan 1 dari sebuah cerita Skotlandia yang ditulis oleh Shakespeare. Mereka adalah tiga penyihir kegelapan, yang menginginkan Macbeth untuk menjadi raja. Prediksi mereka seringkali bertentangan dengan salah satu kisah-kisah penyihir, dan ternyata wanita-wanita itu bukanlah apa apa selain kesusahan dan kesulitan.

Tituba

Pengadilan penyihir Salem di tahun 1692 mempunyai sejarah yang kebanyakan dilupakan oleh orang Amerika. Padahal sejarah itu menawarkan cuplikan masyarakat puritanical (berpegang pada norma-norma moral dan agama) yang berpandangan sempit. ketakutan oleh takhayul serta ketakutan sendiri. Diantara tiga wanita pertama yang diadili adalah Tituba, seorang budak yang asalnya masih misterius, mungkin praktisi voodoo afrika. Menurut beberapa catatan, Tituba mengakui kejahatannya agar tidak dipukuli terus oleh tuannya, Pendeta Samuel Parris dan menyatakan dalam kesaksian bahwa ia telah menandatangani perjanjian dengan setan, terbang di udara dengan tongkat dan mempunyai penghilatan makhluk gaib seperti kucing dan serigala. Namun tidak seperti banyak penyihir Salem lainnya, Tituba tidak digantung atau dihancurkan sampai mati dengan digencet batu. Dia melewati beberapa waktu di penjara sebelum dibebaskan lalu menghilang dari catatan sejarah dan hanya meninggalkan legenda.

Penyihir di Hansel and Gretel

Untuk seukuran dongeng anak-anak, Hansel dan Gretel berisikan hal-hal serius yang berhubungan dengan tema kelaparan, kemiskinan dan kanibalisme. Dalam kisah Grimm Brothers, ketika keluarga Hansel dan Gretel's mengalami kelaparan, ibu tiri yang jahat meyakinkan suaminya yang baik namun tersesat agar meninggalkan anak-anaknya di hutan. Setelah serangkaian tikungan dan belokan, anak-anak itu sampai pada sebuah pondok  yang dibuat dari kue jahe dan permen, yang dengan rakus mereka mulai makan sampai akhirnya penyihir membuka pintu dan memikat dengan permen agar mereka mau masuk. Ternyata penyihir ini adalah jenis penyihir yang paling buruk: tipe pemakan orang. Dia akhirnya dibakar sampai mati di oven oleh Gretel.

Circe

Ini adalah penyihir dari legenda Yunani yang bisa mengubah manusia menjadi serigala atau babi hanya dengan mengambil obat atau membaca mantra. Konon dia adalah putri Helios, dewa matahari, dan merupakan karakter utama dalam The Odyssey. Penyair Yunani menggambarkan dia tinggal di sebuah rumah besar dikelilingi oleh singa aneh dan serigala. Dia memiliki suara yang indah

Endora from Bewitched

Endora, yang mungkin muncul dalam sejarah sebagai penyihir yang mengenakan eye shadow paling banyak dari setiap penyihir pernah ada, adalah ibu dari Samantha Stephens, penyihir di serial komedi Bewitched di tahun 1960-an dan 70an. Selain tidak sedang minum obat atau memperingatkan kematian raja Israel yang akan datang, Endora memang memiliki kesukaan untuk muncul dan keluar pada adegan yang tepat untuk menggoda suami Samantha.

Marie Laveau

Meskipun legenda Marie Laveau agak sulit untuk dibuktikan, dia sering digambarkan sebagai ratu voodoo paling terkenal di New Orleans. Lahir sekitar 1794, ia bekerja untuk keluarga kulit putih yang kaya dan dianggap tahu semua hal dan punya mistis kuat, perpaduan Katolik Roma dengan kepercayaan roh Afrika. Dia juga punya ular bernama Zombi. Tetapi dikatakan bahwa ia menggunakan tahi lalatnya di berbagai rumah tempat ia bekerja untuk mendapatkan informasi tentang orang-orang. Informasi inilah yang membuatnya terlihat maha tahu. Pada saat kematiannya pada tahun 1881, New York Times menulis. "Untuk takhayul orang putih, Marie muncul sebagai seorang pedagang dalam seni hitam dan orang yang harus ditakuti serta dihindari"

Galadriel

Sebelum fans Lord of The Ring protes, Galadriel, ratu perinya J.R.R Tolkien yang pernah bermain di film Peter Jackson karya Cate Blanchett, bukanlah seorang penyihir konvensional dengan topi bengkok dan sapu. Dalam bukunya Tolkien, orang yang menyebut Galadriel ini penyihir adalah para musuh dan kadang-kadang kurcaci. Tapi dia dimunculkan dengan kemampuan yang banyak dimiliki oleh penyihir dalam cerita rakyat, seperti kekuatan dogmatis yang memungkinkan untuk melihat ke dalam hati manusia serta masa depan, dan kemampuan-kemampuan lain.  Sebagai pembawa cincin magis, Galadriel juga tahu bahwa dia bisa menjadi kuat dan menghancurkan dirinya sendiri. Tapi dia menolak, dan mengirimkan berbagai hadiah dan berkahnya
kepada sang karakter utama di sepanjang pencarian mereka.

Hmm... kenapa harry potter ga masuk ya? padahal udah ngarep banget kalo dia ada di daftar ini. huhuhu

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by: dark-dawg


Bunga bakung tidak punya apa-apa untuk diandalkan
Padahal aku ingin segera memetik dan mencumbunya
Bunga bakung tidak terikat pada kenyataan
Namun selalu indah walau matahari tidak menaunginya
Walau angin tidak memeluknya
Dan walaupun hujan mengingkari keberadaannya

Bunga bakung memang hidup seperti itu
Di tiap musim dia selalu berdiri sendiri
Karena hidupnya keras dan sepi, dia jadi makin indah
Akarnya kuat menghujam tanah
Memberi tahu bahwa ada sebuah kehidupan

Batangnya kokoh menjulang tinggi
Tak membiarkan apapun mengganggunya

Kelopaknya indah
Mekar dan menarik

Tapi bunga bakung salah memasuki jaman
Tidak ada harapan untuk menuntunnya
Tidak ada yang mau mengajaknya bermain

Merusak kotak impian
Mencekat nafas hidup

"Aku ingin cepat sampai di rumah pembantaian," katanya padaku.

Harry Potter Quotes part 6

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Dumbledore to Harry.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Harry Potter Quotes part 5

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Spoken by Ginny Weasley.

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Spoken by Severus Snape.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Dumbledore to Voldermort.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human … the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Dumbledore to Harry as he struggles with grief and anger over Sirius's death.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Dumbledore to Harry, talking about Sirius's treatment of Kreacher.

He chose the boy he thought most likely to be a danger to him ... and notice this, Harry. He chose, not the pureblood (which according to his creed, is the only kind of wizard worth being or knowing), but the half-blood, like himself. He saw himself in you before he had ever seen you, and in marking you with that scar, he did not kill you, as he intended, but gave you powers, and a future, which have fitted you to escape him not once, but four times so far. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Dumbledore to Harry.

An invisible barrier separated him from the rest of the world. He was - he had always been a marked man. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Time is making fools of us again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Harry Potter Quotes part 4

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be! Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Albus Dumbledore to Hogwart's students.

Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right, and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

What's comin' will come and we'll meet it when it does. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Spoken by Hagrid.

No, I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up.... It always does in the end. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Spoken by Luna Lovegood.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter Quotes part 3

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban Spoken by Albus Dumbledore in movie, screenplay by Steven Kloves.

In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban Spoken by Albus Dumbledore in movie, screenplay by Steven Kloves.

It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

I say there are spots that don't come off... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Spoken by Mad-Eye Moody.

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Spoken by Mad-Eye Moody.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Spoken by Sirius Black.

I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.... At these times... I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Harry Potter Quotes part 2

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here! Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Spoken by Albus Dumbledore

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Spoken by Ron Weasley.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Spoken by Arthur Weasley

The best of us must sometimes eat our words. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

The dementors affect you worse than the others because there are horrors in your past that others don't have. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban Remus Lupin to Harry.

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no....anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just exist. As an empty shell. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban Remus Lupin to Harry.

The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.