The position is that of the sorcerer's apprentice.
Nevertheless, to become a sorcerer, one has to be an apprentice.
Clearly, nuclear disasters would have ceased long ago if moderation had prevailed over the excitement of all the sorcerer's apprentices.
Gikuyu had long punished sorcerers with fire.
So a sorcerer who transforms into a bear does not do so as a disguise, but in order to harness bear 'effects' in order to undertake suitably bear-like activities.
Whether some recent historians of the subject will prove in this context to be merely sorcerer's apprentices is a matter for urgent public as well as professional concern.
They were feared as sorcerers.
Some revivalists thought him a greedy sorcerer.