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Necromancy
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This article is about the form of magic. For the film, see Necromancy (film).
"Necromancer" redirects here. For other uses, see Necromancer (disambiguation).
The Witch of Endor, the most famous Biblical necromancer, from the frontispiece of Sadducismus Triumphatus by Joseph Glanvill (1681).Necromancy (pronounced /ˈnɛkrɵmænsi/; Greek νεκρομαντεία nekromantÃa, via Latin necromantia) is a form of magic in which the practitioner seeks to summon the spirit of a deceased person, either as an apparition or ghost, or to raise them bodily, for the purpose of divination.
In Renaissance magic, necromancy (or nigromancy, by popular association with niger "black") was classified as a forbidden art or black magic, and Johannes Hartlieb (1456) lists demonology in general under the heading.
The word necromancy derives from the Greek νεκρός (nekrós), "dead body", and μαντεία (manteÃa), "prophecy, divination". The compound νεκρομαντεία itself is post-classical, first used by Origen in the 3rd century. The classical Greek term is nekyia (ἡ νέκυια), in Hellenistic Greek also νεκυιομαντεία, rendered in Latin as necyomantia and in 17th century English as necyomancy.
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