Necromancy HWSM 01 010

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Necromancy "That the essential salts of animals may be so prepared and preserved, that an ingenious man may have the whole ark of Noah in his own study, and raise the fine shape of an animal out of its ashes at his pleasure: and, that by the like method from the essential salts of humane dust, a philosopher may, without any criminal necromancy, call up the shape of any dead ancestor from the dust whereinto his body has been incinerated" (p. 151).  Mather, Cotton. "The Life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt." Magnalia Christi Americana. Vol I. 1702. Silas Andrus, 1820. https://archive.org/details/magnaliachristia01math/page/n7/mode/2up