Conjurer

The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each.

Holmes stood before us with the air of a conjurer who is performing a trick.

You had the same experience as Mr Bean when the conjurer summoned him.

July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/ With his crude potato-sack mask and fear-inducing toxins, The Scarecrow, a “psychopharmacologist” at an insane asylum, acts as a conjurer of nightmares, capable of turning his patients’ most terrifying anxieties against them.

His incivility confirms no less. Good Doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer; Establish him in his true sense again, And I will please you what you will demand.

1893 The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each. — Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".

Some would be apt to say, he is a Conjurer; for he has found, That a Republick[…] is composed of Men only, and not of Horses