See also:

• NECROMANCY (Gr. veKpoµavreia, or veIVoµavrEia, from vEKpos or ViKVS, corpse, and µavreia, divination)

NECROMANCY (Gr. veKpoµavreia, or veIVoµavrEia, from vEKpos or ViKVS, See also:

• CORPSE (Lat. corpus, the body)

corpse, and µavreia, See also:

• DIVINATION
• DIVINATION, OMEN, ASTROLOGY

divination)  , properly See also:

• DIVINATION
• DIVINATION, OMEN, ASTROLOGY

divination by communicating with the dead . The latinized See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek word was corrupted into nigromantia, connecting the word with See also:

• NIGER
• NIGER, GAIUS PESCENNIUS

niger, See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black, and so was applied to the " black See also:

• ART

art," " black magic," in the sense of See also:

• WITCHCRAFT

witchcraft, sorcery . This corrupted form is See also:

• COMMON

common in See also:

• ENGLISH

English to the 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century (see MAGIC and WITCHCRAFT) .