Necromancy

Necromancy (???????????) is the alleged divination by which a person raises the spirits of the dead or, in some cases, merely their corpses. The word derives from the Greek ?????? (nekros) "dead" and ??????? (manteia) "divination". It has a subsidiary meaning reflected in an alternative and archaic form of the word, nigromancy, (a folk etymology using Latin niger, "black") in which the magical force of "dark powers" is gained from or by acting upon corpses. A practitioner of necromancy is a necromancer.

Related Topics:
Divination - Greek - Folk etymology - Latin - Magical

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