necromancy

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Magic or Necromancy: puz or naual; and they were accustomed to call their magicians or sorcerers by the same terms.

From Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

In other words, these men had been experimenting along the lines of Jewish Necromancy, or Invocation and Evocation of Disembodied Astral Intelligences by means of Conjuration.

From Mystic Christianity by Atkinson, William Walker

Necromancy and magic, demonism and witchcraft, have long since been relegated to the limbo of exposed fraud.

From Craftsmanship in Teaching by Bagley, William Chandler

Occult Literature is susceptible of a division into several classes or sections: Religious Cults, Necromancy, Magic, Second Sight, Divination, Astrology, Palmistry, of which all have their special literatures and bibliographies.

From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Hazlitt, William Carew

What is noteworthy too, it proved wholly inane, this huge world-ocean of Intrigues and Imperial Necromancy; ran dry at last into absolute nothing even for the Kaiser, and might as well not have been.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Carlyle, Thomas