United States or Hong Kong ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
They agreed to make the experiment, and Devar grinned broadly when the lane presented itself exactly as Curtis had predicted. "What did I tell you?" he cackled to the roundsman. "John D. is a Chinese necromancer. I'm getting used to his tricks, and you will catch the habit in another hour or two.
"Mortal, they softly say, Peace to thy heart! We too, yes, mortal, Have been as thou art; Hope-lifted, doubt-depressed, Seeing in part, Tried, troubled, tempted, Sustained, as thou art." In the Orlando Innamorato, Malagigi, the necromancer, puts all the company to sleep by reading to them from a book. Some books have this power of themselves and need no necromancer.
And yet more particular is the next verse, wherein it is said; 'Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. And then cometh the denunciation of divine anger against such offenders in these awful words: 'For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations, the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee. Again, it is said in Leviticus, that 'the Lord setteth his face against such, to cut them off. And in Exodus, the law is expressly laid down thus 'THOU SHALT NOT SUFFER A WITCH TO LIVE. There is no escape for her, you see.
So that I am employed, like the General who was forced to kill his enemies twice over, whom a necromancer had raised to life. If Mr. PARTRIDGE has practised the same experiment upon himself, and be again alive; long may he continue so! But that doth not, in the least, contradict my veracity! To ISAAC BICKERSTAFF, Esq.
If I had not previously seen in America a necromancer cut his wife's head off, and then put it on again so slick that she seemed to have received no injury, I might have begun to believe that this Indian juggler had supernatural powers. To Lucknow succeeded Agra. The great wonder and prize of Agra is, of course, the Taj Mahal.
So far as gravity of mien, solemn grimaces, and unintelligible mutterings were concerned, le Bourdon played his part to admiration; and by the time he had led the party half the distance he intended to go, our necromancer, or "medicine- man," had complete possession of the imaginations of all the savages, the two or three chiefs already mentioned alone excepted.
He started back a step or two, and his nose at once drew in to its ordinary dimensions. He approached Albertine again, with exactly the same result. To make a long tale short, his nose kept on shooting in and out like a trombone. "Cursed necromancer!"
Cromwell, as if he cared not to look upon the person whom he expected to appear, drew back, like a necromancer afraid of the spectre which he has evoked. "He has come to the battlement," said Pearson to his General. "In what dress or appearance?" answered Cromwell, from within the chamber.
The alfaqui was an African necromancer, and by his infernal arts cast a spell upon me to guard his treasures. Something must have happened to him, for he never returned, and here have I remained ever since, buried alive.
Tylor writes: 'The issue raised by the comparison of savage, barbaric, and civilised spiritualism is this: Do the Red Indian medicine-man, the Tatar necromancer, the Highland ghost-seer, and the Boston medium, share the possession of belief and knowledge of the highest truth and import, which, nevertheless, the great intellectual movement of the last two centuries has simply thrown aside as worthless?
Word Of The Day