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3 months ago qroqqa said:

black magic, witchcraft, necromancy, sorcery

Goety worketh vpon the dead by inuocation, so called of the noyse that the practisers hereof make about graues.
—John Healey, 1610, translation of and commentary on Augustine of Hippo's City of God

< Greek goēteíā < goēt- "sorcerer" < go- "cry, wail"

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