necromancy
IPA: nˈɛkrʌmænsi
noun
- Divination involving the dead or death.
- Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising or reanimating the dead.
- (Internet) Synonym of necroposting
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Examples of "necromancy" in Sentences
- To most people necromancy is fiction and myth.
- Hubert was taught in the dark arts of necromancy.
- The use of dust might be connected to necromancy.
- He turned to necromancy at the loss of true magic.
- The concept of necromancy is thousands of years old.
- Sorcery is strong against Alchemy and weak to Necromancy.
- History as necromancy is avowed in the Preface to Life of
- This area draws practitioners of necromancy and the undead.
- All the acts of sorcery, witchcraft, necromancy were easiest then.
- The belief that necromancy was real and dangerous threatened many.
- Necrom seemed to favour necromancy, raising the dead to act as his servants.
- As dreams of the woman Lilitu haunt the warrior Pyrrhas, necromancy is in his future, it would seem.
- Victor the image of his former self, given Victor’s youthful interest in necromancy and raising the dead [22].
- "Let me explain!" said Donal: "what could necromancy, which is one of the branches of magic, do for one at the best?"
- In fact, little by little the term necromancy lost its strict meaning and was applied to all forms of black art, becoming closely associated with alchemy, witchcraft, and magic.
- I need hardly remind you that ‘necromancy’ is a Greek word, which signifies, according to its proper meaning, a prophesying by aid of the dead, or that it rests on the presumed power of raising up by potent spells the dead, and compelling them to give answers about things to come.
- So exceedingly sensitive was the conscience of the priest, that had he clearly understood the game le Bourdon was playing, he might have revolted at the idea of necromancy, as touching on the province of evil spirits; but he was so well mystified as to suppose all that passed was regularly connected with the art of taking bees.
- The ordinary Englishman is not a great believer in devils or spirits of evil: though he does in some instances believe in ghosts, and is inclined to the practice of what in former ages was called necromancy -- the attempt to establish an illicit connexion with the spirits of the departed -- under the modern name of psychical research.
- The Bible certainly does address the issue of dealing with evil spirits in that it explicitly forbids engaging in pagan worship, conjuring up the dead or spirit-guides (what we call necromancy--things like ouija boards and mediums and seances), and anything that might be called magic (trying to manipulate the material world by spiritual means).
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