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art of foretelling the future by evoking the dead), a terrible and imaginary 

 science which had earned for its adepts the name of necromancers. This 



Fig. 154. The Image of Dame Astrology, with the Three Fates. After a Miniature in the " Trait* 

 de la Cabale Chretionne," in Prose, by-Jean Thcnuud, a Cordelier of Angouleme, a Work 

 dedicated to Francois I. Manuscript of the Sixteenth Century. In the Arsenal Library, Paris. 



srirnrc was all the more believed in during the Middle Ages because it 

 .i) i] >:! red, in tin- eves <>t' a superficial observer, to be based upon the authority 



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