My fantasy magic pet peeve is using the suffix "-mancy" to mean "kind of magic." No, anything ending thus is divination, find a new suffix.
(If anybody has suggestions, probably from Latin or Greek - necromancy came through both - then please reply with them)
(If anybody has suggestions, probably from Latin or Greek - necromancy came through both - then please reply with them)
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As in, haruspicy, fortune telling by examining entrails.
Or, I like to imagine, neurospicy.
Pyromancy is now pyrorrhea.