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Thanks again and now on with the show. If you were to look for one obsession that's common to nearly every civilization in recorded history, it's death.

Where we go? How to delay it?

How to prepare the deceased for the afterlife?

And of course, how to keep in touch after we're gone.

Necromancy is the term for the practice of communicating with and raising the dead. And you can find versions of it. of Egyptians, the Romans, and Greeks, all have stories about people who claim to be able to communicate

with the dead.

The oldest known literary account of necromancy can be found in Homer's Odyssey.

In this part of the epic tale, the great hero Odysseus traveled to the underworld, and

using spells he obtained from the sorceress Sercie, gained insight from the dead into what lay ahead during his journey home.

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