Jedi master Yoda performed a sort of magic in fiction and films. Blessed Padre Pio, Franciscan mystic, carried out another kind in the form of stigmata.

Both claimed their authority stemmed from a higher force.

No, they aren’t getting a new buddy show on UPN. Both have statues - side by side - in Bologna.

Interesting, yet oddly unsettling. Why? Well, maybe because one was real and the other wasn’t. I’ve nothing against Yoda, or the Star Wars franchise… But WTF?