How To Use Necromancy In A Sentence
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a kind of chaplet, or crown, the possession of which by any woman was supposed to confer the power of necromancy or magic, rendering her able to heal diseases and to foretell events.
The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself
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Every god gave different main abilities; Edea gave mastery of the white fire, Death gave mastery of necromancy, Pyro gave mastery of fire, etcetera.
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There is the obvious addition of the black magics that come with allowing necromancy into your blood; this magic varies from necromancer to necromancer, but most have a few magical traits in common.
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Years ago he began to lay the groundwork for the gigantic, cataclysmal acts of dark necromancy that should rock the earth to its core and enslave its inhabitants.
Conan the Avenger
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In my kingdom, necromancy, magic related with resurrection and death, was illegal.
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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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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.
Oak Openings
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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.
Religious Reality
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Only someone with an innate talent for Free Magic and necromancy could open the book, and only an uncorrupted Charter Mage could close it.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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You'd have to do a little prework if you wanted to start working Kemmler-level necromancy, even on Halloween.
Dead Beat
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As dreams of the woman Lilitu haunt the warrior Pyrrhas, necromancy is in his future, it would seem.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Horror Stories Of Robert E. Howard - Robert E. Howard
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Other sets of synonyms include, in addition to the aforementioned haruspicy and haruspication: caloptromancy and enoptromancy; spodomancy and tephramancy (or tephromancy); alectryomancy and alectoromancy; astromancy and sideromancy; crystallomancy and gastromancy; hieromancy and hieroscopy; necromancy and sciomancy; ornithomancy and orniscopy; and scapulimancy and omoplatoscopy.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2
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What an impressive act of comedic necromancy this is.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other sets of synonyms include, in addition to the aforementioned haruspicy and haruspication: caloptromancy and enoptromancy; spodomancy and tephramancy (or tephromancy); alectryomancy and alectoromancy; astromancy and sideromancy; crystallomancy and gastromancy; hieromancy and hieroscopy; necromancy and sciomancy; ornithomancy and orniscopy; and scapulimancy and omoplatoscopy.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2
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Your powers of necromancy would indeed be powerful - he's been dead years.
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What an impressive act of comedic necromancy this is.
Times, Sunday Times
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Victor the image of his former self, given Victor’s youthful interest in necromancy and raising the dead [22].
_Frankenstein_'s Cinematic Dream
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Not satisfied with the limitations of human knowledge and power, he begins to practice necromancy.
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A final category of occult activity is known as spiritism, which is defined as an attempt to contact or communicate with a spirit entity or deceased person (called necromancy).
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Some theurgical workings will incorporate elements of thaumaturgy, and divination may include necromancy while today's alchemist may bring in elements of all the other forms.
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Those who were born with or took upon themselves the burden of necromancy were often looked upon favorably by all four Goddesses, except, of course, the Goddess of Light.
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All New Elements of Magic including Necromancy, Illusions , and powerful Artifacts.
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You may be versed in necromancy, and steeped in alchemy, and schooled in the ancient cruel arts of your realm.
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She introduced herself to them, and quickly covered the necromancer that was among them with many charms, most of which had a tint of necromancy in them.
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He passed his son through fire, practiced astrology and read omens, and performed necromancy and conjured spirits.
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(Aegis, 21 October 1895) is a haunted house tale concerning Chaldean necromancy, psychic forces, and astral forms being discussed with exhausting erudition by Damon Van Buster, somebody called "Pythias," and George and Fred (no last names), the latter a medical student "deep in Gray's Anatomy.
The woe of an aspiring genius.
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The woman was dead, a walking, talking pale corpse seemingly brought back to life by the omnipotent mystical forces of necromancy.
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While demonology may be the most dramatic, mediumship is also a form of necromancy, as is divination, which employs the use of spirit guides.
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Never mind that this was originally a pagan festival; the taint of necromancy (communing with the dead) has been overpowered by a commercialised confectionery fest.
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History as necromancy is avowed in the Preface to Life of
Notes on 'Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality'
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The nobler arts of magic, astrology, alchymy, necromancy, &c., were equally in vogue in this age with that of the infernal art proper.
The Superstitions of Witchcraft
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Is dealing with dead people always necromancy?
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I tried explaining why she shouldn't talk about or practice necromancy.
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Other sets of synonyms include, in addition to the aforementioned haruspicy and haruspication: caloptromancy and enoptromancy; spodomancy and tephramancy (or tephromancy); alectryomancy and alectoromancy; astromancy and sideromancy; crystallomancy and gastromancy; hieromancy and hieroscopy; necromancy and sciomancy; ornithomancy and orniscopy; and scapulimancy and omoplatoscopy.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2
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EVERYBODY has heard of the Cave of St. Cyprian at Salamanca, where in old times judicial astronomy, necromancy, chiromancy, and other dark and damnable arts were secretly taught by an ancient sacristan; or, as some will have it, by the devil himself, in that disguise.
The Alhambra
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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.
English Past and Present
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Avelacuna died as the final syllable was uttered, and no explanation could be gotten from her, for elves did not practice the dark art of necromancy, the act of returning the soul to the body, if only for a little time.
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First, Saul had zealously enforced Torah's prohibition against necromancy as king of Israel, yet he is now so desperate for guidance that he consults a medium - one who is a criminal by his own laws.
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Because necromancy has been practiced in many cultures, it includes a variety of techniques.
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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.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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Hence, magic became part of a growing "underworld" of unorthodox practices, such as necromancy, witchcraft, and heresy -- all forms of deviance from a norm now asserting itself in greater clarity than ever before.
What Is Magic?
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Soon after 1750, however, as occult sciences were ascribed to the Templars, their system was readily adaptable to all kinds of Rosicrucian purposes and to such practices as alchemy, magic, cabbala, spiritism, and necromancy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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Other sets of synonyms include, in addition to the aforementioned haruspicy and haruspication: caloptromancy and enoptromancy; spodomancy and tephramancy (or tephromancy); alectryomancy and alectoromancy; astromancy and sideromancy; crystallomancy and gastromancy; hieromancy and hieroscopy; necromancy and sciomancy; ornithomancy and orniscopy; and scapulimancy and omoplatoscopy.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2
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You may be versed in necromancy, and steeped in alchemy, and schooled in the ancient cruel arts of your realm.
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But this magic has a tendency to turn to necromancy when computers break down.
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Let me explain!" said Donal: "what could necromancy, which is one of the branches of magic, do for one at the best?
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald
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Necromancy is only black magic, because it neither evokes spirits or heals.
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Your grandmother taught you necromancy, right?
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Other sets of synonyms include, in addition to the aforementioned haruspicy and haruspication: caloptromancy and enoptromancy; spodomancy and tephramancy (or tephromancy); alectryomancy and alectoromancy; astromancy and sideromancy; crystallomancy and gastromancy; hieromancy and hieroscopy; necromancy and sciomancy; ornithomancy and orniscopy; and scapulimancy and omoplatoscopy.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2
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As for magic, necromancy, pyromancy, geomancy, coscinomancy, and all the other mancies -- there was then a whole literature about them.
Historical Lectures and Essays
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It will tell you everything that you will need to know about necromancy and Death.
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all, but mere necromancy.
