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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

From the Vault: The Necromantic Urge, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the historic and psychological origins of necromancy: the ancient practice by which shamans, wizards and sorcerers sought communication with the dead. (Part 1 of 3, originally published 09/28/2023)

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to stuff to blow your mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

0:09.2

And I am Joe McCormick. And hey, Rob and I are out this week for fall break so we're bringing you a few

0:15.0

episodes from the vault. This is part one of our series on Necromancy, originally published

0:22.2

September 28th, 2023.

0:25.0

All right, let's jump right in.

0:27.0

My heart is made a necromancer's glass,

0:31.0

where homeless forms and exile phantoms team, where faces of forgotten sorrows gleam,

0:37.2

and dead despair's archaic peer and pass, gray longings of some weary heart that was possess me and the multiple supreme

0:46.6

unwieldered hope and star emblazoned dream of questing armies, ancient queen and lass, risen vampire-like from out the

0:57.0

wormy mold, deep in the magic mirror of my heart, behold their parish beauty and depart. And now from black Ophelian far and cold, swimming

1:08.0

in deathly light on charnel skies, the enormous ghosts of bygone worlds arise.

1:15.0

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

1:30.0

My name is Robert Lamb.

1:31.0

And I am Joe McCormick, to continue a stuff to blow your mind tradition.

1:36.7

We are disregarding the traditional Gregorian calendar and we have decided that October begins in late September.

1:43.8

It often does for us, if you don't know, we do spooky content all October, and today is the

1:50.8

first day of that month-long festival.

1:53.6

That's right.

1:54.7

I mean, yeah, Halloween has already begun.

1:57.4

There's no doubt about it.

1:58.9

I'm going to a haunted house tomorrow night.

2:01.8

So it's begun. It has begun and so we kicked off

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