A magic-user is a human being, whether man or woman, young or old, good or evil that has the power to harness and perform magic for beneficial or detrimental means, either for themselves and/or others, or sometimes against anybody or anything who was born with the power via ancestry of a supernatural being/magical creature or is self-taught in whatever kind of magic. Practitioners of magic are known as magicians, wizards (warlocks in some cases), witches (female), sorcerers (fem. sorceresses), alchemists, enchanters (fem. enchantresses), etc.