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A notable variant is when people with [[Psychic Powers]] get classified by the suffixes "Kineticist" and "Kinesis". So a fiery psychic is a pyrokineticist/pyrokinetic, a water-controlling psychic is a hydrokinetic, a cold-manipulating psychic is a cryokinetic and so on with the endless possibilities of [[Gratuitous Greek|Greek and Pseudo Greek]]. Also if a work features a [[Fantastic Science]], there's a good chance that it's going to have a similar naming scheme.

== Comicbooks ==

* The light-hearted ''[[Stanley and His Monster]]'' series by [[DC Comics]] included a character who practiced "Jell-O-Mancy".

* Kieron Gillen's [[Phonogram]] is centered around London's [[Britpop]] scenesters, who practice "phonomancy," or the application of music as magic.

 

* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' have a few; Pyromancy, Necromancy, Neuromancy, and the like. Joked about when Harry refers to wizard Peabody as a "Bureaucromancer." When he calls Mac "a master Beeromancer". He's not kidding, either. Queen Mab refers to mortal technology as "Ferromancy".

* T.A. Pratt's [[Marla Mason]] series has all kinds of sorcerers with different (and often bizarre) specialties depending on what they draw power from: pyromancers, aquamancers, geomancers, pharmacomancers, necromancers, biomancers, technomancers, sex magicians(who are jokingly referred to in the books as [[The Pornomancer|pornomancers]]), aviomancers, vermomancers(who have power over vermin like rats and roaches) nihilomancers(who can drive their enemies to suicide), herbomancers, mycomancers(who derive power from mushrooms of all things), and nearly every other kind of -mancer one could possibly imagine. Marla herself, an Anti-Heroine/''very'' Dark Action Girl, refers to herself half-seriously as a "brute-force-o-mancer."

* One of [[David Langford]]'s spoof ''[[Occult Detective]]'' stories features a discussion of various methods of divination, each with a -mancy name. They get increasingly ridiculous, before ending with the art of predicting the future by ''doing absolutely nothing''. Which is, of course, {{spoiler|dormancy}}.

* Averted in the [[Nasuverse]], where the general term for that thing magi do is "Thaumaturgy", or miracle working (derived from an eponymous [[Real Life]] term). As the name implies, the aim of Thaumaturgy is to replicate or reproduce "miracles" or "true magic".

* [[Exalted]] has Necromancy (the dark magic of the Underworld, power of and over the dead), and Oneiromancy (power of dreams and over Wyld), although the latter is almost exclusively practiced by the [[Fair Folk]].

* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' only uses the -mancer suffix for Necromancers, using more unique names for the other schools of magic.

** Actually, some of the subclasses (Kits in 2nd edition, Prestige Classes in 3rd) used class names ending in -mancer.

** Also, the Diplomancer, the slang term for a build with such high Diplomacy skill that a roll of the dice would turn enemies into fanatical servants.

** However, calling everything _____mancy is mentioned as a modern fashion. The name "Urbanmancy" is an example of this, with the book [[Lampshaded|stating that if mages cared about language]] it would be called "Polisurgy". Earlier schools of magic were generally named things like The Way Of The Cogs, or The Way Of All Freedom.

** One notable fan-made school of magick from the website is "[http://ua.johntynes.com/content_comments.php?id=3139_0_3_0_C1 Tropamancy]". Yup. Inspired by this very wiki.

* [[Rifts]] has nicknames for various specialist psionicist classes with "fun" alternates. Pyrokinetic=Burster, Brontokinetic/electrokinetic=Zapper. Not one but TWO Necromancer classes. One from Africa, and a Russian alternate known as a Bone Wizard. Necromancers can learn bone magic spells and vice-versa though. There is also the Techno-Wizard, the Fire Sorcerer, the stone magic-using Stone Master, and the Nega-Psychic, who nullifies or negates magical effects and psychic abilities.

** The clanbook for the Mekhet in ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'' uses it correctly, however, outlining various methods of divination with "-mancy" as a suffix. This makes sense, as the Mekhet are the clan with the Discipline of [[Psychic Powers|Auspex]] and heavy occult trappings.

* The Ogre Kingdoms of ''[[Warhammer]]'' have Gut Magic, AKA "Gastromancy".

 

== Videogames ==

* ''[[Runescape]]'' has the Culinaromancer, an [[Evil Chef]] mage, And Oneiromancy which is "dream magic". As it is a fantasy MMORPG, necromancy is naturally present as well. There is also a [[Dishing Out Dirt]] hobgoblin geomancer, and a literal [[Badass Bookworm]] "Liberomancer", Lexicus Runewright. At one point, a wizard known to possess magical beads even reveals that he is working on developing a type of magic called ''beadromancy''.

* Played with by - what else? - ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', with the Pastamancer, who controls noodles, and can also summon the undead... through summoning noodly bodies.

* The Necromancer, Serpent Clan's most powerful unit, from ''[[Battle Realms]]''.

* Combined with [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]] in ''[[Devil May Cry]] 2'', resulting in Pyromancers, Auromancers, and Brontomancers.

* The Flash RPG ''[[MARDEK]]'' has necromancy, pyromancy, aeromancy, elemancy (which uses all four natural elements), and one character even claims to be an ''equillibriumancer''.

** In said game's universe (a rather extensive one, with multiple inhabited planets of various levels of technological development), an equilibriumancer is one who uses the two moral elements, or Light and Dark. Sounds fitting with the balance, doesn't it?

* The ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' series has a resident necromancer and cryomancer in the form of the evil sorcerer [[The Necromancer|Quan Chi]] and [[McNinja|Lin Kuei]] assassin [[An Ice Person|Sub-Zero]] respectively.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* Horoscopes for obvious reasons. "Horomancy" if you will. More acurately "Astromancy" or Astrology.

* Geomancy is the western word for Feng Shui.

* [[I Ching]] divination is a form of chartomancy.

 

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== Web Original ==

* Naruto the Abriged Series does this, especially for an [[Ass Pull]] or [[Played for Laughs]]