burial ground
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burial ground (plural burial grounds)
- A cemetery or graveyard.
- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178:
- They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate "psychicism", can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight.
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cemetery or graveyard — see graveyard