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 Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 9:23 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 10:47 pm
What do you mean by "necromancy"?
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:27 am
Esiris What do you mean by "necromancy"? just it in general.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 5:33 am
Infected Fruit Esiris What do you mean by "necromancy"? just it in general. So, divining the future by interacting with the dead? Not to my knowledge.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 6:58 am
MidnightLetter Infected Fruit Esiris What do you mean by "necromancy"? just it in general. So, divining the future by interacting with the dead? Not to my knowledge. alright. I was just interested in knowing! emotion_c8
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:00 am
Infected Fruit alright. I was just interested in knowing! emotion_c8 I'm not an initiate- but I think it's fair to say that just because Wicca doesn't have any rules against it, that wouldn't make it part of Wicca either. Like, someone could be Wiccan, but not practice divination by the dead in Wicca but maybe outside of Wicca they do.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:06 pm
What Riri said. There's nothing that says you can't practice necromancy if you're a Wiccan, but doing so won't make it a Wiccan practice.
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:10 am
Isn't necromancy controlling the dead?
If I'm not mistaken, that wouldn't be considered going along with Wiccan teachings since, technically, you're forcing someone/somebody to do your bidding, against their will.
(if I am mistaken, though, please correct me. I'm here to learn, first and foremost.)
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:27 am
mqstalker Isn't necromancy controlling the dead? If I'm not mistaken, that wouldn't be considered going along with Wiccan teachings since, technically, you're forcing someone/somebody to do your bidding, against their will. (if I am mistaken, though, please correct me. I'm here to learn, first and foremost.) It's divination via communication with the dead. You can tell by the -mancy part which indicates divination, e.g. cartomancy. Used to be divination via exhumed corpses circa 1200 biggrin which sounds a lot more messy, difficult and less likely to be helpful. It's from the Greek "nekromanteia", from nekros "dead body" + manteia "divination". Controlling the dead would be a different word, which you could probably make up if you felt like it and had an Ancient Greek dictionary to hand.
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:53 am
mqstalker Isn't necromancy controlling the dead? That's a fantasy fiction trope, not a representation of what necromancy is in ancient and medieval mythology. I've never seen it used in that manner outside roleplaying games and video games.
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:00 am
MidnightLetter Controlling the dead would be a different word, which you could probably make up if you felt like it and had an Ancient Greek dictionary to hand. I'm gonna go with Necroencracy, from the word I constructed Nekroenkrateo (enkrateo is to be master of/have control over), which could also be written as Nekroegkrateo. I'm sure there are other ways to construct such a word, of course.
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