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...ered, including the beliefs of the constituent parts of humans; demonology, angelology, shades and the Satan; the home of the dead, ancestor worship, necromancy, and burial customs. Oesterley also hypothesizes on how primitive beliefs in immortality may have developed in pre-Christian times. (Summary by JoeD)...

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...murders.‖ – Galat. v. 19-21. Many of the heathens cordially defend magic and necromancy. For example, Asclepiades, who lived in the time of Pompe... ...ded Marcellus and Alexander Trallian. Pliny asserts in very plain language that necromancy was so prevalent in his day, but was condemned by the wise... ... It is impossible to point to any period when the belief in witchcraft and necromancy was perfectly obliterated, or to any nation which altogeth... ... imaginative and spiritual harmony of the soul, and sacred iuvocations , &c. Necromancy has its name because it works on the bodies of the dead, a... ...ions, and by deadly sacrifices and wicked oblations. There are two kinds of necromancy: raising the carcasses, which is not done without blood; ... ...ncious that the unsavory morsel was for their mouths they grew restive ; for no necromancy could satisfy them that Tituba‘s briney bread was like gi...

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...e: Magica Chapter Four: Diablerie Chapter Five: Charms Chapter Six: Shapeshifting Chapter Seven: Sorcery Chapter Eight: Mastery I Chapter Nine: Necromancy Chapter Ten: Fascination Chapter Eleven: Phylactery Chapter Twelve: Mastery II Chapter Thirteen: Liberation, 1840-1841 Chapter Fourteen: The Will of a Free People, 1841-1869 About the Author...

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...fter one of Ann’s outbursts; I would look at her and through some sort of necromancy I would see Hamnet’s face—I would remem- ber our fun, our fishin...

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... of your art already. Perhaps you would poison us both to conceal your own necromancy. But we are persons who want neither the means of making our wro...

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...rcise, And glutted now with learning’s golden gifts, He surfeits upon cursed necromancy; Nothing so sweet as magic is to him, Which he prefers before ...

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... to a cave which only waits for the magician, and the little fire, and the necromancy, that will make the earth shake. All the dates imported come fro...

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... in a nunnery, and there she learned so much that she was a great clerk of necromancy. And after she was wed- ded to King Uriens of the land of Gore, ...

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...tainment. Even as such, some apology for it is necessary. Miracles, visions, necromancy, dreams, and other preternatural events, are exploded now even...

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...served and attended by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual. By his skill in necromancy he has a power of calling whom he pleases from the dead, and c... ...n absolutely concluded, that all these appearances could be nothing else but necromancy and magic. But I had no time to pursue these reflections; for ...

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...tion of witchcraft was revived, and the op- posing lawyers hurled tomes of necromancy at each other. At last Anne de Cornault was brought back into co...

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...o pyrotechnics, legerdemain, magic, both black and white, thaumaturgy, and necromancy, he favored the world (which world was the nursery where I lived... ...my sisters) with his select opinions. On this last subject es- pecially—of necromancy—he was very great: witness his profound work, though but a fragm...

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...at deal more, out of the fulness of my heart; while Hollingsworth, by some necromancy of his horrible injus tice, seemed to have brought them both to...

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...t, faintly approved of.” We, even at such distance, can explain it without necromancy. Let the Philosopher answer this one question: What figure, at t...

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...ss a price than her life) of being a prin cipal actor in all the works of necromancy that were con tinually going forward, the crowd gave way before...

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...ny. Gigantic idea! one way of pouring hope into pint cups,—in short, a new necromancy! So far, we have only got ten or a dozen hard heads initiated in...

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... Miriam, whose cures the Gentiles slandered as if they had been wrought by necromancy.” Isaac accordingly bade his friend farewell, and about an hour’... ...el,” said Isaac, “my soul is disquieted, and I wot not why. This charge of necromancy is right often used for cloaking evil practices on our people.” ...

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...nd such as Eblis are his descendants of Kurdistan.” T ales of magic and of necromancy were the learning of the period, and Sir Kenneth heard his compa...

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...han mortal, for his cunning be the growth of ages, he have still the aids of necromancy, which is, as his etymol ogy imply, the divination by the dea...

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...o love. La Fallotte was a hunchback, vehemently suspected of deal- ings in necromancy, and of riding to nocturnal orgies on a broomstick, according to...

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...t, faintly approved of.” We, even at such distance, can ex plain it without necromancy. Let the Philosopher answer this one question: What figure, at ...

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...ebrated in the house of a Polish Prince. People babbled of satanism and of necromancy. Haddo was thought to be im mersed in occult studies for the pe...

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... no less a price than her life) of being a principal actor in all the works of necromancy that were continually going forward, the crowd gave way befo...

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...ridiculously feeble as I write it. The magic of a lovely form in woman—the necromancy of female gracefulness—was always a power which I had found it i...

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...re said, with the greatest rapidity, it must have been moved altogether by necromancy-for it had neither fins like a fish nor web-feet 26 Poe in Five...

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...ulgar, no way partial to her husband or her family, imputed her success to necromancy. According to the popular belief, this Dame Margaret purchased t...

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... Guinea, Negroland, &c.; whilst the Hebrew or Syriac word for the rites of necromancy, was Ob or Obh, at least when ventriloquism was concerned. 232 ...

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... in a nunnery, and there she learned so much that she was a great clerk of necromancy. And after she was wed- ded to King Uriens of the land of Gore, ...

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...r by extispiciny? By turdispiciny, quoth Panurge. Or yet by the mystery of necromancy? I will, if you please, suddenly set up again and revive someone...