Posts by David Richerby
You are falling victim to the etymological fallacy: the false belief that the original meaning of a word is somehow its one true meaning. If you look up "necromancy" in dictionaries, you find thin...
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The Oxford English Dictionary (subscription needed) says that "wand" has meant "A magic rod; the staff used in enchantments by a fairy or a magician" for more than 600 years: a1400–50 [The...
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