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	[[wikipedia:Necromancy\|Necromancy]] (Greek νεκρομαντία, nekromantía) is a form of divination in which the practitioner seeks to summon the dead, who materialise as "operative spirits" or "spirits of divination", for multiple reasons, from spiritual protection to wisdom. The word necromancy derives from the Greek νεκρός (nekrós), "dead", and μαντεία (manteía), "divination".		'''[[wikipedia:Necromancy\|Necromancy]]''' (Greek νεκρομαντία, nekromantía) is a form of divination in which the practitioner seeks to summon the dead, who materialise as "operative spirits" or "spirits of divination", for multiple reasons, from spiritual protection to wisdom. The word necromancy derives from the Greek νεκρός (nekrós), "dead", and μαντεία (manteía), "divination".

	However, since the Renaissance on [[Roundworld]], necromancy has come to be associated more broadly with black magic and demon-summoning in general, sometimes losing its earlier, more specialized meaning. By popular etymology, nekromantia became nigromancy "black arts", and Johannes Hartlieb (1456) lists demonology in general under the heading.		However, since the Renaissance on [[Roundworld]], necromancy has come to be associated more broadly with black magic and demon-summoning in general, sometimes losing its earlier, more specialized meaning. By popular etymology, nekromantia became nigromancy "black arts", and Johannes Hartlieb (1456) lists demonology in general under the heading.
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	[[Granny Weatherwax]] has particularly extreme views on speaking with the dead: she won't even read books in case the people who wrote them are dead, in which case she's being informed ''by'' a dead person, which is practic'ly necromancy in itself.		[[Granny Weatherwax]] has particularly extreme views on speaking with the dead: she won't even read books in case the people who wrote them are dead, in which case she's being informed ''by'' a dead person, which is practic'ly necromancy in itself.


	===Necromancers===		===Necromancers===

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	However, since the Renaissance on [[Roundworld]], necromancy has come to be associated more broadly with black magic and demon-summoning in general, sometimes losing its earlier, more specialized meaning. By popular etymology, nekromantia became nigromancy "black arts", and Johannes Hartlieb (1456) lists demonology in general under the heading.		However, since the Renaissance on [[Roundworld]], necromancy has come to be associated more broadly with black magic and demon-summoning in general, sometimes losing its earlier, more specialized meaning. By popular etymology, nekromantia became nigromancy "black arts", and Johannes Hartlieb (1456) lists demonology in general under the heading.

	While [[Eric]] Thurslow might have thrown himself enthusiastically and in a dangerously haphazard self-taught way into his deceased uncle's collection of [[Grimoire\|grimoires]] dealing with necromancy and demonology, had he been accepted for formal training at [[Unseen University]], he would have realised that necromancy now belongs to the dark age of dribbly candles and the sort of un-necessary paraphernalia that gives wizarding such a bad name. No, we are now at the dawn of a bright new age of technomancy, and in the ''modern'' world of wizardry, it is now the province of the [[Department of Post-Mortem Communications]] to perform rites that have nothing ''at all'' to do with the outmoded and dangerous practice of necromancy, oh no. Ignore what it says on the door, will you, we just haven't got round to having it repainted yet. And ignore whatever ~~Profesor~~ [[Flead]] has to say about it, as he's ''dead'', that's why!		While [[Eric]] Thurslow might have thrown himself enthusiastically and in a dangerously haphazard self-taught way into his deceased uncle's collection of [[Grimoire\|grimoires]] dealing with necromancy and demonology, had he been accepted for formal training at [[Unseen University]], he would have realised that necromancy now belongs to the dark age of dribbly candles and the sort of un-necessary paraphernalia that gives wizarding such a bad name. No, we are now at the dawn of a bright new age of technomancy, and in the ''modern'' world of wizardry, it is now the province of the [[Department of Post-Mortem Communications]] to perform rites that have nothing ''at all'' to do with the outmoded and dangerous practice of necromancy, oh no. Ignore what it says on the door, will you, we just haven't got round to having it repainted yet. And ignore whatever Professor [[Flead]] has to say about it, as he's ''dead'', that's why!

	[[Granny Weatherwax]] has particularly extreme views on speaking with the dead: she won't even read books in case the people who wrote them are dead, in which case she's being informed ''by'' a dead person, which is practic'ly necromancy in itself.		[[Granny Weatherwax]] has particularly extreme views on speaking with the dead: she won't even read books in case the people who wrote them are dead, in which case she's being informed ''by'' a dead person, which is practic'ly necromancy in itself.

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[[wikipedia:Necromancy|Necromancy]] (Greek νεκρομαντία, nekromantía) is a form of divination in which the practitioner seeks to summon the dead, who materialise as "operative spirits" or "spirits of divination", for multiple reasons, from spiritual protection to wisdom. The word necromancy derives from the Greek νεκρός (nekrós), "dead", and μαντεία (manteía), "divination".

However, since the Renaissance on [[Roundworld]], necromancy has come to be associated more broadly with black magic and demon-summoning in general, sometimes losing its earlier, more specialized meaning. By popular etymology, nekromantia became nigromancy "black arts", and Johannes Hartlieb (1456) lists demonology in general under the heading.

While [[Eric]] Thurslow might have thrown himself enthusiastically and in a dangerously haphazard self-taught way into his deceased uncle's collection of [[Grimoire|grimoires]] dealing with necromancy and demonology, had he been accepted for formal training at [[Unseen University]], he would have realised that necromancy now belongs to the dark age of dribbly candles and the sort of un-necessary paraphernalia that gives wizarding such a bad name. No, we are now at the dawn of a bright new age of technomancy, and in the ''modern'' world of wizardry, it is now the province of the [[Department of Post-Mortem Communications]] to perform rites that have nothing ''at all'' to do with the outmoded and dangerous practice of necromancy, oh no. Ignore what it says on the door, will you, we just haven't got round to having it repainted yet. And ignore whatever Profesor [[Flead]] has to say about it, as he's ''dead'', that's why!

[[Granny Weatherwax]] has particularly extreme views on speaking with the dead: she won't even read books in case the people who wrote them are dead, in which case she's being informed ''by'' a dead person, which is practic'ly necromancy in itself.

===Necromancers===

* [[Achmed The Mad]] - Klatchian Necromancer, & author of the [[Necrotelicomnicon]]
* [[Flead|Professor Flead]] - Past Necromancer at the Unseen University
* [[John Hicks|Dr Hix]] - Current head of the [[Department of Post-Mortem Communications]]
* Necromancer of the [[Horse People]] - Sent Rincewind to the house of [[Death]]

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