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necromancy
noun
Divination involving the dead or death.
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Related: Bruce Lee estate attacks plan to digitally recreate martial arts star But such digital necromancy is raising concerns.
The Congolese used to blame their leaders for their horrific problems, but many now blame juvenile necromancy instead.With broods of ten commonplace, there are plenty of children to accuse.
The identities of the goryō were determined by divination or necromancy.
One or both died about 1540, leaving a tangled legend of sorcery and alchemy, astrology and soothsaying, studies theological and diabolical, necromancy and, indeed, sodomy.
Finally, as further evidence of modern preoccupation with death, it may be noted that, in Western society, Spiritualism witnesses to a widespread desire to have communication with the dead, and recently, in England, there has even been a recrudescence of necromancy.
The hallowing of wine, bread, altars, vestments, and so forth was related to necromancy.
Necromancy was especially popular in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and its temptations and perils were vividly described in the Faust stories of Christopher Marlowe and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
It's an act of pure cinematic necromancy Guy Lodge, Variety Ricocheting from London to Rome to Morocco across action sequences of deliriously daft extravagance, the pic accumulates a veritable Pompeii of mighty, crumbling structures.
Aristotelian philosophy is also ditched in favour of necromancy.
Soothsaying, augury, sorcery, and necromancy were also reintroduced.
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