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* In ''[[Popotan]]'' Ai uses Anthomancy: She divines by flowers, specifically dandelions.

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

* ''[[Hellblazer]]'' does this ''a lot'', usually with the title character.

* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books have [[Formulaic Magic|Arithmancy]], a class Hermione (and only Hermione) takes. This one is an accurate use of the suffix, though, as arithmancy is divination by numbers.<ref>In real life it's an alternative, and not much used nowadays, term for numerology.</ref> Amusing when you consider that Hermione once stated that she considered divination to be very "woolly".

** Also, Legilimency and Occlumency, the arts of mind reading and blocking mind reading, respectively. Legilimency comes from Latin "''legens''" and "''mens''", which mean "reader" and "mind;" Occlumency, from "occlude," which means "conceal," and "''mens''." Or alternitavely, from "occulus" meaning "eye".

* Don Callandar's novels: Pyromancer, Aquamancer, Geomancer, and Aeromancer.

* William Gibson's iconic [[Cyberpunk]] novel ''[[Neuromancer]]''. Actually a good use of the "mancer" suffix - a "Neuromancer" [[The Cracker|"divines information"]] with a [[Unusual User Interface|"neural interface"]], albeit through the use of [[Clarks Third Law|technology]] rather than magic. Also a pun, "New Romancer", connected to the New Romantic music genre of the '80s. [[Lampshaded]] by the titular AI in conversation with the protagonist.

* The ''[[Mistborn]]'' trilogy features metal-fueled magic called allomancy, in which only four out of sixteen metals involves divination (the mythic atium that gives you a few seconds' sight into the future, its pair malatium that allows you to see glimpses of a person in their own past, gold which allows you to see a glimpse into your own past, and gold's alloy electrum which lets you see a few seconds into your own future and is largely useless except as a counter to atium). The similar magical system is called feruchemy, which is poorly named for the opposite reason - it is indeed a chemical magic, but only two of the sixteen metals contain iron. The blood-based magic, hemalurgy, is the only one with a truly appropriate name.

* ''[[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".

* 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".

* In ''[[The Magicians]]'', when Quentin finds his Discipline is unclassifiable, he says of himself "I'm a nothingmancer. I'm a squatmancer."

* In the "Divination" episode of ''[[QI]]'', the four contestants were invited to predict their scores by various methods of divination. [[Butt Monkey|Alan Davies]] was invited to use [[wikipedia:Rumpology|Pygomancy]]. Alan got the last laugh, however, by 'vanishing' from the set (he wanted to watch his football team, Arsenal, play in the finals). It was the only episode of ''QI'' in which he was not a panelist.

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

* ''[[Unknown Armies]]'' uses this heavily. Every magic school is some kind of "-mancy." Examples include the entropomancer (who powers up through risking her own life), dipsomancer (power from alcohol), bibliomancer (power from acquiring rare books), and many others.

** 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.

* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' is full of mancers, and while they do have their share of future-seeing mancers, most mancers use the "control whatever it is" version 'cause it's more fun (some, like Retromancer or Anathemancer, are a little shaky on even what their prefix means). Matt Cavotta gives us the scoop on Magic's 'mancers [http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mc63 here].

** 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".

* One episode of [[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]] had the trio face off against a nasal-mancer, or nose wizard, who was using an enchanted scent to lure all the noses of the city, Billy's included, to the shopping mall where he resided so he could replace his lost nose.

* ''[[E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy|EYE Divine Cybermancy]]'' has "Cybermancy" (Hackers with psi abilities) and "Necrocybermancy", which is the process of installing cybernetic implants, similar to fantasy necromancy; The patient dies, is cybernetically modified, and gets his spirit called back into the body.

* Some ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games have [[Class and Level System|character classes]] that use this. Most spellcasters are referred to as Mages ([[White Mage|White]], [[Black Mage|Black]], or otherwise,) but the Geomancer is a recurring character class whose powers are drawn from the terrain type the party is fighting on. (likely a direct result of Feng Shui User [[Cultural Translation|just not sounding cool in English]])

* Applied liberally to ''[[Erfworld]]'', with the usual half-cutesy twists added. Here, the "death" mages are called Croakamancers, the illusion-casters are called Foolamancers, and the earth-specialist is a Dirtamancer. Every school of magic (except for a few, like Hat Magic) bears the Mancy suffix, and we get stuff like Hippymancy, Lookamancy, Luckamancy, etc. Dirtamancers do move earth, but they can also use... night soil.

* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' gives us Infernomancers (guys who got their powers from the demons of Hell), in addition to Necromancers. Interestingly, we get a quick peek at the first necromancer (Rilian), while he's trying to come up with a name for it. Other names in the running were "Necromagica," [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"Ghost in the Spell"]], "Rilianmancy" and "Kill-You-Dead".

* Tropes that use this form:

** [[Necromancer]]

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

* Bibliomancy is divination from [[The Bible]].

* [[Justice League]] had at least one instance of "ferro-kenesis."

** This is the stated powerset of Iron Butterfly of [[Shadow Cabinet]].

* Subverted in ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]]''. Liz notes that her powers could be described as 'pyrokinesis', but she doesn't like the term.

* Pyrokenesis is a major plot point in [[Christopher Pike]]'s aply-titled ''Magic Fire.''

* In ''[[Misfits]]'', one guy dubs his ability to manipulate dairy products "lactokinesis".

* D&D psionics seem to avoid the trope altogether, except for the fire-wielding Pyrokineticist prestige class, which suggests variants for the various energy types, like a Cryokineticist that wields cold (who actually shows up in the ''Frostburn'' book)

* The powers granted by pins in ''[[The World Ends With You]]'' are [[Psychic Powers]], only some of which use the -kinesis form.

* As are a number of the psychic powers available in ''[[Psychonauts]]''

* In the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', Madras, who could telekinetically control fabric, called his power "Fasmokinesis", bastardizing "yfasma", the Greek word for "cloth". Also, there was [[Making a Splash|hydrokinesis]], [[Playing with Fire|pyrokinesis]], and many others.

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

* As mentioned above, both terms come from [[Real Life]] usage, and the various forms of -kinesis are still used widely today.

* Cytokinesis is happens when cell divide during mitosis, but is a process from mitosis.

* Toshiko Tatsuno of ''[[Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru]]'' practices [[Meido|meidojutsu]], described as the art of "luring men with the illusion of gentleness, and taking their money".

* ''[[Naruto]]'' has three main schools of ninja techniques. Ninjutsu (which is basically magic that has some form of substance, like spitting fireballs or manipulating water), Genjutsu (Illusion-casting) and Taijutsu (Martial arts). Many individual ninja moves carry the name [X] no Jutsu, which roughly translates into "Art of the [X]" or "[X] Technique".

* If Hawk trains as a Ninja in [[Seiken Densetsu 3]], he learns 4 Jutsu attacks corresponding to the elements: Water Jutsu, Earth Jutsu, Thunder Jutsu, and Fire Jutsu.