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Recent Examples of necromancy Here’s Page’s step-by-step guide on how to go about medieval necromancy in a productive, yet safe, manner. Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 18 Dec. 2024 The end of an era Happily for sacrificial bats and young cousins all over Europe, necromancy was waning by the end of the 18th century. Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 18 Dec. 2024 The history of necromancy is an interesting window into our past more broadly. Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 18 Dec. 2024 The act was short and provided few details about what constituted witchcraft, sorcery or necromancy. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2025 After her death, Morgan even resorted to necromancy, reviving the People’s Princess (now embodied by Elizabeth Debicki) as an apparition who soothes a disconsolate Charles (Dominic West) and makes peace with a grieving but resentful Elizabeth (Imelda Staunton). Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023 Part of my aversion arises from my own hidebound premodern Calvinist outlook, in which death is no laughing matter and necromancy is forbidden by God (see Deuteronomy 18:9-13). Barton Swaim, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023 Season 8, which arrived on BritBox last month, includes a spooky Christmas tale, a bright spin on necromancy, a game show that doesn’t go according to plan (hosted by Lee Mack) and an off-kilter love story. Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023 The necromancy reference and Gideon's own interest in cloning would seem to be connections to the cloning project that led to Snoke and the eventual reveal of the cloned Emperor Palpatine in The Rise of Skywalker. Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for necromancy
Noun
  • Wakanda Forever, the series brings Riri back home to Chicago, where the lines between science and sorcery start to blur.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Generating sophisticated charts or extracting hidden insights was a form of sorcery few dared to question.
    Florian Douetteau, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Rotoscope animation sets the stage for this wild 17th century look at a woman accused of witchcraft whose trial reveals the presence of a werewolf in a deeply religious Livonian community’s midst.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Rotoscope animation sets the stage for this wild 17th century look at a woman accused of witchcraft whose trial reveals the presence of a werewolf in a deeply religious Livonian community’s midst.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The magic of Frank Lloyd Wright’s genius design is its constant sense of surprise—an effect redoubled by the work of an artist like Johnson, who moves so fluidly between media.
    Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The free event will bring the magic of the rainforest alive with this interactive show.
    Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025

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“Necromancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/necromancy. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.

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