Wizards can cast magic. Some are worse, others are better. Caspar, Balthazar and Melchior are great wizards, so they can cast magic superbly. But they can’t do anything else. The fact is that they are not only great, but also very, very old wizards. Old age spares no one. These three keep forgetting where they are, what day it is, and how many legs the centipede has. They even remember their own names only occasionally. But they can cast magic superbly. If you need a boat, they will conjure up a cruise yacht with a crew and passengers. You need to dig a hole - they will conjure a mining machine. And what happened when they wanted to try turtle soup... In general, they don’t know a damn thing about magic.