necromancy

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It was called Necromancy, or the Black Art.

From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by Stapleton, John H. (John Henry)

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

Magic, 10, 93, 120, 131, 153, 156, 168, 171, 204, 245, 250, 253-65, 281, 292, 299, 324, 328, 339, 346, 380-1: see Charms, Divination, Magicians, Necromancy, Fairy Spell, Witches, and Witchcraft.

From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans

Mediaeval ceremonial magic was subdivided into three chief branches—White Magic, Black Magic, and Necromancy.

From Bygone Beliefs: being a series of excursions in the byways of thought by Redgrove, H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley)

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