Editing Pyrokinesis (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''pyrokinesis'' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] ''pyr'' meaning fire, ''kinesis'' meaning movement) was popularized by horror novelist [[Stephen King]] in his 1980 novel ''[[Firestarter (novel)|Firestarter]]'' to describe the ability to create and control fire with the mind, though its use predates the novel.<ref name="Joyce"/><ref>{{cite book|last1=McCrossan|first1=John A.|title=Books and Reading in the Lives of Notable Americans: A Biographical Sourcebook|date=2000|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Connecticut|isbn=0313303762|page=[https://archive.org/details/booksreadinginli00mccr/page/144 144]|url=https://archive.org/details/booksreadinginli00mccr/page/144}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Walt |title=Reference Guide to Fantastic Films: Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror. Volume 2 |date=1972 |publisher=Chelsea-Lee Books |location=Los Angeles |isbn=0913974048 |page=193 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jtVkAAAAMAAJ&q=0913974048 |access-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101142659/https://books.google.com/books?id=jtVkAAAAMAAJ&q=0913974048 |archive-date=1 November 2023 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> The word is intended to be parallel to ''[[Psychokinesis|telekinesis]]'', with [[S. T. Joshi]] describing it as a "singularly unfortunate coinage" and noting that the correct analogy to telekinesis would "not be 'pyrokinesis' but 'telepyrosis' (fire from a distance)".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Joshi|first1=S. T.|title=The Modern Weird Tale|date=2001|publisher=McFarland|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|isbn=9780786409860|page=75|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YvyM5NgXopAC&q=pyrokinesis |access-date=6 September 2014}}</ref>