Editing Pyromancy (section)

{{Short description|Divination by means of fire}}
{{distinguish|Pyrokinesis}}
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[[File:Candle-light-animated.gif|thumb|150px|A candle's flame]]

'''Pyromancy''' ([[Ancient Greek]] ἐμπυρία (empyria), ''divination by fire'')<ref name=":2">Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). ''A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press.</ref> is the art of [[divination]] by means of [[fire]] or flames.<ref name=":3" />

The word ''pyromancy'' is adapted from the Greek word ''pyromanteia'', from pyr (πῦρ, ''fire)''<ref name=":2" /> ''and'' ''manteia'' (μαντεία, ''divination by means of'').<ref name=":2" /> Its first known use was in the 1300s, and it evolved into the [[Late Latin]] word ''piromantia'' and [[Old French]] word ''piromance.''<ref name=":3">“Pyromancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pyromancy . Accessed 26 Jan. 2023.</ref>