In almost all Heathen or Pagan countries, Witchcraft, Necromancy and Sorcery are recognized and established institutions.
It is impossible to point to any period when the belief in Witchcraft and Necromancy was perfectly obliterated, or to any nation which altogether repudiated it.
Pliny asserts in very plain language that Necromancy was so prevalent in his day, but was condemned by the wisest, that it was classed with treason and poisoning.
Those who were of a melancholy and gloomy temperament betook themselves to necromancy and sorcery; those more cheerful and aspiring, devoted themselves to astrology.
Bernardino preached, and saw the books of necromancy and the false hair of the ladies burned; here that the Podestà and the people received ambassadors with deeds of submission from terrified neighbour towns.
Yet the thought was no more fantastic than the necromancy that could slay an armed man by the touch of an open, empty hand.
Necromancy is not accomplished by the waving of a wand.
There was one peculiar species of necromancy which was held in great dread.
But beyond this, he aimed at several well-known rogues of his day, especially those pretending to necromancy and prophetic powers, who seem to have been numerous.
I am sure," persisted Kate, "Mr. Grant talked so as to make me think he believed in necromancy and all that sort of thing!
I did not mean to start any question about belief; I only wanted to suppose necromancy for the moment a fact, and put it at its best: suppose the magician could do for you all he professed, what would it amount to?
A more melancholy tale does not occur in the annals of necromancy than that of the Lancashire witches in 1612.
The author has with great art expanded very slender materials, and rendered his work in a striking degree a code and receptacle of all the most approved ideas respecting necromancy and a profane and sacrilegious dealing with the devil.
I find a story dated about this period, which, though it does not strictly belong to the subject of necromancy or dealings with the devil, seems well to deserve to be inserted in this work.
The volume of records of supposed necromancy and witchcraft is sufficiently copious, without its being in any way necessary to trace it through its latest relics and fragments.
There is a story of necromancy which unfortunately makes too prominent a figure in the history of the court and character of king James the First.
It may seem strange that in a treatise concerning necromancy we should have occasion to speak of the English law of high treason.
Trithemius has been accused of necromancyand a commerce with demons.
This was a period which produced a new era in the history of necromancy and witchcraft.
And numerous animals had other forms in their first stages of existence, which they, as well as human beings, forfeited, by the power of necromancy and transmigration.
We felt desirous of drawing from him such particulars respecting his former practice in necromancy and the prophetic art, as might lead to correct philosophical conclusions.
No explanation availed for thenecromancy of the library.
Thus there is no necromancy by which the mind can get superior work out of its inferior moods.
Again: in Corea and China the practice of Necromancy is said to be almost universal.
I believe we commit the crime of Necromancy when we take part in these spiritual seances.
This was sufficient for me," writes the above correspondent; "what I had heard and seen convinced me that necromancy was practised.
It may be held by some that what has already been written on Witchcraft and Necromancy is a melancholy instance of grovelling superstition on the part of its Author.
And have we not a sign of a national mental crisis in our own day in the prevalence of 'Spiritualism,' which is the form which necromancy at present takes?
For by Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Necromancy Satan still works, men being his direct agents and slaves.
I then absolutely concluded, that all these appearances could be nothing else but necromancyand magic.
What necromancy so wonderful, as the potentiality of if?
Was there somenecromancy in the azure flames, that suddenly revealed the beloved face of the wife of his youth, and the lovely vision of their only child?
Eymerich tells us that if a man was suspected of necromancy and was found to be an astrologer it went far to prove him a necromancer, for the two were almost always conjoined.
On his coming to Deventer, Groot examined him and found him ignorant of necromancy and its allied arts, and concluded that he operated through a compact with Satan.
Peter was a little bewildered; for as yet, he did not understand that a belief in necromancy was not exactly compatible with the notions of the Christian Providence.
The fires served as beacons, and Margery had been a distant witness of the bee-hunter's necromancy as well as of his escape.
At first thought it might be assumed that the association of the rod or wand with necromancy is merely an indication of power or authority, in the same way as the sceptre is associated with kingship.
They are upon all manner of subjects--from the necklace of the Pleiades to circumcision; from necromancy to the characteristics of certain Abyssinian women; from devilish rites and ceremonies to precious stones as prophylactics.
To reveal this to others, even to his own people, is, he believes, to expose himself to the counteracting influence of other agents known to his subtle scheme of necromancy and superstition, and to hazard success and life itself.
Still, for see them gather ghostly Now, as the numb sound Floats as unearthly necromancy From the past's dead ground.
The ideal fourth degree Midē´ is presumed to be in a position to accomplish the greatest feats in necromancy and magic.
