King James: Daemonologie (1597 First Edition)

And this word Necromancy is a Greek word, compounded of "dead body" and "divination" original Greek: νεκρὸν (nekron) & μαντεία (manteia), which is to say, "prophecy by the dead." This last name is given to this black and unlawful science by the figure of synecdoche A figure of speech where a part is used to represent the whole; here, one specific practice—using the dead—gives the name to the entire forbidden art., because it is a principal part of that art to use dead carcasses in their divinations.

PHILOMATHES: What difference is there between this art and witchcraft?

EPISTEMON: Surely, the common original: "vulgare" difference put between them is very amusing original: "merrie" and, in a way, true. For they say that witches are only servants and slaves to the Devil, but necromancers are his masters and commanders.

PHILOMATHES: How can it be true that any men, being specifically dedicated to his service, can be his commanders?

EPISTEMON: Yes, they may be, but it is only in a certain respect original Latin: secundum quid. For it is not by any power that they actually have over him, but by agreement original Latin: ex pacto only original: "allanerlie"; a Scots word meaning solely or exclusively. Through this, he binds himself to perform some trifles for them so that he may, on the other hand, obtain the possession original: "fruition" of their body and soul—which is the only thing he hunts for.

PHILOMATHES: A very unfair contract, indeed! But I pray you, speak further to me: what are the effects and secrets of that art?

EPISTEMON: That is too large a field you give me; yet I shall do my best, as briefly as I can, to run through the principal points of it. Just as there are two sorts of people who may be enticed to this art—namely, the learned or the unlearned—so there are two means which are the first prompters and feeders of their curiosity, to make them...