- magician, prestidigitator, conjurer, conjuror, illusionist - someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience
--1 is a kind of performer, performing artist
--1 has particulars:escapologist, escape expert; mind reader, telepathist, thought-reader - sorcerer, magician, wizard, necromancer - one who practices magic or sorcery
--2 is a kind of occultist
--2 has particulars:enchanter; exorcist, exorciser; magus; sorceress; witch doctor; Cagliostro, Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Giuseppe Balsamo; Houdini, Harry Houdini, Erik Weisz