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The '''holy spell school''' only existed in pre-DCSS versions of ''Crawl''. Its spells provided a wide variety of useful effects, very few of which can still be found as spells. Among its spells were:
* Lesser/Greater Healing: acted just like a [[potion of curing]]/[[potion of heal wounds]] (neither cured status effects, though).
* [[Purification]]: Similar to the Zin ability.
* Restore Strength/Dexterity/Intelligence: These were very useful if you found them, since in early versions, stats did not heal naturally, and [[potion of restore abilities|potions of restore abilities]] could be quite rare.
* [[Smiting]]: Back when this was available to players as a spell effect, it was, appropriately a holy spell.
* [[Cure Poison]]: The only holy spell that remained player-castable after holy's removal, albeit under a different school.

==History==
Holy spells still existed in the code for a long time after they were removed, although they could never be generated in DCSS except through bugs. However, before the advent of gods in pre-DCSS Crawl, they filled the niche that the [[good gods]] now fill. Indeed, the abilities provided by holy spells were generally parceled off to the good gods.

Holy spells never had any [[miscast]]s associated to them, unlike the [[Divinations]] school.

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