Talk:Nigromancy

This article provides no sources and is potentially completely wrong[edit]

Considering -mancy is a suffix referring to divination, I would like to know which Goetic or Renaissance source used Nigromancy in reference to demonic summoning.

The general blanketed use of -mancy referring to any branch of magic is a modern misusage and rarely shows up in any reputable pre-Renaissance source, as such unless proper citation for this article can be provided I'm going to nominate it for deletion as currently it has no factual basis.

I have no doubt the term could have been used in exchange for Necromancy, however in which case it would have referred to divination. As necromancy refers to divination through the dead.

If the term came into play after the Renaissance then it should be noted. As stated before it is highly doubtful the term would have been used as described during the Medieval period.

Sign your posts, you angry soul. --75.72.148.96 (talk) 03:26, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There does not seem to be any reliable sources to confirm any of this article.Thesniperremix (talk) 12:16, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the only way to make this article relevant to anything is to base it on Richard Johnson's The Famous Historie of the Seaven Champions of Christendom (1596). --93.172.231.193 (talk) 05:01, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

IMHO the books mentioned in the article do provide enough sources, so I believe the unreferenced can be removed? Maggy Rond (talk) 08:49, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, these are not proper references to support this article. As far as I can tell, this is either:

a) A historical spelling variant of necromancy—this impression is supported in part by the necromancy article (see the 2nd paragraph of the intro), or

b) A more general category of magic practice, i.e. an archaic term for black magic

Unless we can find modern, reliable sources that use this spelling and distinguish nigromancy as a specific form that is distinct from both necromancy and black magic, I'd say this needs to be redirected (with some of this content perhaps rolled into the target article). My guess is that it should go to black magic (since the necromancy article is focused on raising spirits/dead), but I'm no expert.

Something needs to happen, though; this has been sitting here with a no-reference tag for long enough. /ninly_(talk) 20:28, 6 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]