Comment by wdaher

The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a poem by Goethe, or more famously, a sequence from the Disney movie "Fantasia", which you can see here: https://video.disney.com/watch/sorcerer-s-apprentice-fantasi...

The short summary of it is: the sorcerer's apprentice (Mickey) uses magic to get a broom to fetch water for him, and then the situation gets out of control as the broom continues to get water, and he has no idea how to stop it.

(It's a cautionary tale about the danger of playing with forces you don't really understand/"be careful what you wish for".)