psychomancy
Inviting the dead to grant advice to the living. Many believe that the dead retain a great interest in mortal concerns and choose to bother them with their questions. When the dead decline to attend these insipid gatherings, many psychomancers liven up the party by demonstrating their considerable skill in ventriloquism and acting. Other forms of prophesying with the dead include anthropomancy (the examination of freshly procured human entrails), necromancy (classic black magic), osteomancy (examining bones), and spatulamancy (the observation of the skin, bones, and excrement). |