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Necromancy vs Mediumship - What's the difference?

necromancy | mediumship |

As nouns the difference between necromancy and mediumship

is that necromancy is divination involving the dead or death while mediumship is the state of being a medium (psychic conduit).

necromancy

English

Alternative forms

* necyomancy, egromancy

Noun

  • Divination involving the dead or death.
  • * 1597 King James Daemonologie
    • And for to make this treatise the more pleasaunt and facill, I have put it in forme of a Dialogue, which I have diuided into three bookes: The first speaking of Magie in general, and Necromancie in special.
  • * 1652 Gaule The Magastromancer
    • And in one word for all, Nagomancy', or ' Necromancy ; by inspecting, consulting, and divining by, with, or from the dead.
  • * 1867 E. Rogers, quoted in K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic
    • the Devil did often tempt me to study necromancy' and ' nigromancy and to make use of magic, and to make a league with him...
  • * 1920 L. Spence Encyc. Occult
    • There is no doubt..that necromancy is the touch-stone of occultism...
  • Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising]] or [[reanimate, reanimating the dead.

    • Derived terms

    * thread necromancy

    mediumship

    English

    Noun

  • The state of being a medium (psychic conduit).
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1905 , year_published=2008 , edition=Reprint , editor= , author=Hamlin Garland , title=Tyranny of the Dark , chapter=Dr. Britt Explains citation , genre=Fiction , publisher=Project Gutenberg , isbn= , page=70 , passage=The mother is a spiritualist—has been for years—and, being on the lookout for it, naturally discovered what she calls 'mediumship' in Viola when a child. }}