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necromancy

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Ancestral Lore of necromancy

necro- + -mancy

necro "death, corpse, dead tissue"
Latinized form of Greek nekros "dead body, corpse, dead person"
from PIE root nek- "death"

mancy "divination by means of"
from Greek manteía "the power to prophesy or divine; oracle, divination"

necromancy noun
noun: necromancer
adjective: necromantic
  • conjuration of the spirits of the dead for purposes of magically revealing the future or influencing the course of events
  • magic, sorcery

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“For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy. Among the many things in the infinitely varied universe with which Granny did not hold was talking to dead people, who by all accounts had enough troubles of their own.”

"Equal Rites"
by Terry Pratchett

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