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nigromancy ‎(plural nigromancies)

1. (now historical or Caribbean) Necromancy; magic involving death. [from 14th c.]
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     "I hope thou wilt bring with thee Rebecca, even the scholar of the wise Miriam, whose cures the Gentiles slandered as if they had been wrought by nigromancy."

   • 1999, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, translating Paracelsus, Astronomia Magna, in Essential Readings, North Atlantic Books 1999, p. 126:

     Whoever can deal with these mortal spirits and command them to do his business is proficient in the second species of nigromancy.