The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs. From LearnThat.org. [E. B. White (1899-1985) American author]
History as necromancy is avowed in the Preface to Life of. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on 'Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality'] Reference
As dreams of the woman Lilitu haunt the warrior Pyrrhas, necromancy is in his future, it would seem. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Horror Stories Of Robert E. Howard - Robert E. Howard] Reference
Does this not speak of necromancy, which is paganism at its worst?. From Wordnik.com. [Edmonton Sun] Reference
"Let me explain!" said Donal: "what could necromancy, which is one of the branches of magic, do for one at the best?". From Wordnik.com. [Donal Grant, by George MacDonald] Reference
He tells them that Aickman was trying necromancy which is control of the dead. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
But alas! the necromancy was her mother's. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER VI] Reference
"That doesn't add up to necromancy," I said, frowning. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Beat]
In fact, I'm willing to bet you aren't bad at necromancy yourself. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Beat]
"This is necromancy," she said as if daring him to react in horror. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
This appears to have been the history of necromancy from the beginning. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The necromancy and black art of all antiquity are childish by comparison. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
He enriched the library with books on necromancy, demonology, and alchemy. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Grevane's necromancy made a mockery of life, even as he used it to destroy. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Beat]
I rejected the thought instantly, for I was no believer in modern necromancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
"But I have a gut instinct that says it has something to do with necromancy.". From Wordnik.com. [Dead Beat]
But Cordelia managed all this mental necromancy easily, to her own satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [Different Girls] Reference
"Way too many penny-ante sorcerers getting their hands on some real necromancy.". From Wordnik.com. [Dead Beat]
All through the Middle Ages the name of Virgil had been connected with necromancy. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
Happy is he who gets into trouble by necromancy, who can get out of it by the same. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
For I almost justify Mather's words, when he stigmatizes the necromancy of his day as. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
All things seemed changed to her, and in that bitter necromancy her pride was humbled. From Wordnik.com. [Calvert of Strathore] Reference
Of course, that was before I turned on CNN and learned that there was necromancy involved. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Who Broke "Small Town" Story Says Obama Campaign's Response Was "Classy"] Reference
According to Keating, they learnt the art of necromancy in the East, and taught it to the Danes. From Wordnik.com. [The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13] Reference
"Thou art a creation of the company (initiated in the mysteries of necromancy); return to thy dust.". From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
Another abomination that goes on behind the scenes of Halloween is necromancy, or communication with the dead. From Wordnik.com. [feminist blogs in english » 2009 » October] Reference
Yet to this day most of us surround the medical profession or the healing art with an atmosphere of necromancy. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
"You'd have to do a little prework if you wanted to start working Kemmler-level necromancy, even on Halloween.". From Wordnik.com. [Dead Beat]
The impostor was renowned for his wonderful tricks of legerdemain, as well as for cures, necromancy, and fortune-telling. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
There are special soi-disant sciences for all these branches: — anthroposcopy, divination, oneiro-mancy, necromancy, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Lunheng] Reference
So while the Laws of Magic only address necromancy as used on human corpses, there usually isn't any need for a distinction. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Beat]
But his stay with the learned man was short; for seeing a valuable book of necromancy belonging to his instructor, he stole it. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
A superficial examination of the Bibliotaph's collection revealed the fact that he had either used necromancy or given many gifts. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
The nobler arts of magic, astrology, alchymy, necromancy, &c., were equally in vogue in this age with that of the infernal art proper. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
'Vex not its ghost'; no necromancy will or should evoke the departed spirits or avail to make them utter significant speech to living men. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
Traffic with the occult realm (e.g., necromancy) is ascribed to Israelites as well as to pagans, but it is severely deprecated as ungodly. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
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