Necromancy is the act of
communicating with the dead, often to predict the future…this usually involves
summoning their spirit which will normally form as an apparition…ritual magic
or some type of occult activity is normally involved…such an activity was
frequent in ancient cultures…it was thought that the practice of necromancy
could help its practitioners gain a better control oved future events by
talking with the spirits… there were several reasons necromancy might be used
1) sometimes the spirits were summoned out of love…a departed one might be
missed terribly and the medium would act on behalf of others or even themselves
to ‘communicate’ with the one in the spirit world…2) they might be called upon
to give the medium ‘secret’ knowledge that supposedly only the spirits would
have…or 3) they would be asked to divulge information about lost treasure
perhaps…it was understood that those who were dead would have the ability in
the afterlife to see all things and be able to communicate such
secrets…according to folklore, spirits would be hanging around their burial
place for about a year after they were buried and that made it somewhat easier
for them to be contacted…after that however, the spirits would be almost
impossible to contact as they had gone deep into the ‘spirit world’.
