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| − | |text=The attempt to summon the spirits of the dead in order to gain knowledge of future events from them. The word necromancy derives from the Greek nerkrós, "dead", and manteía, "divination". Early necromancy is related to shamanism, which calls upon spirits such as the ghosts of ancestors. In the Middle Ages, necromancy came to be more associated with black magic and demon-summoning in general, sometimes losing its earlier, more specialised meaning. | + | |text= The attempt to summon the spirits of the dead in order to gain knowledge of future events from them. The word necromancy derives from the Greek nerkrós, "dead", and manteía, "divination". Early necromancy is related to shamanism, which calls upon spirits such as the ghosts of ancestors. In the Middle Ages, necromancy came to be more associated with black magic and demon-summoning in general, sometimes losing its earlier, more specialised meaning. |
|author= [[Pad of Definitions]] ([[2.04 Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things]]) | |author= [[Pad of Definitions]] ([[2.04 Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things]]) | ||
|source= [[Official Website]] | |source= [[Official Website]] | ||
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| + | Necromancy is the act of resurrecting the dead through the usage of magic. | ||
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===[[1.12 Faith]]=== | ===[[1.12 Faith]]=== | ||
[[Sue-Ann Le Grange]] [[Binding Spell|binds]] a [[reaper]] to kill, and heal those she chooses. | [[Sue-Ann Le Grange]] [[Binding Spell|binds]] a [[reaper]] to kill, and heal those she chooses. | ||
Revision as of 02:43, 17 November 2018
Necromancy
The practice of attempting to communicate with the spirits of the dead in order to predict or influence the future.
Necromancy
The attempt to summon the spirits of the dead in order to gain knowledge of future events from them. The word necromancy derives from the Greek nerkrós, "dead", and manteía, "divination". Early necromancy is related to shamanism, which calls upon spirits such as the ghosts of ancestors. In the Middle Ages, necromancy came to be more associated with black magic and demon-summoning in general, sometimes losing its earlier, more specialised meaning.
– Pad of Definitions (2.04 Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things), Official Website
Necromancy is the act of resurrecting the dead through the usage of magic.
Contents
Episodes
1.12 Faith
Sue-Ann Le Grange binds a reaper to kill, and heal those she chooses.
2.04 Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
Neil resurrects his best friend and secret unrequited love Angela Mason so they can still be together. She, however, goes mad and begins killing people from her old life, namely her cheating boyfriend and her best friend, who he cheated with.
2.18 Hollywood Babylon
Screenwriter Walter Dixon writer who wanted a Hollywood movie to be 100% accurate wrote a screenplay that was basically a how-to book on necromancy. When the producers changed it and continued to pervert his original draft, he began raising the dead of Hollywood to kill those who wronged him.
4.07 It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester
Samhain raises ghosts and zombies to wreak havoc on Halloween.
5.15 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Death sends zombies to attack Bobby, including his reanimated wife Karen Singer, because he has been helping Sam and Dean fight the Apocalypse.
6.04 Weekend at Bobby's
Bobby uses a signet ring stolen by Rufus to summon the spirit of Crowley's son to get leverage against the demon.
8.13 Everybody Hates Hitler
In World War II the Thule Society, led by Commandant Eckhart, carried out magical experiments on Jewish people in Vitsyebsk, Belarus that eventually led him and his followers to reanimate the dead, he wrote these notes in his red ledger. Being forced to flee and having left the red ledger behind because of the arrival of the Golem, both the Thule Society and the Judah Initiative began searching for the book. It was Rabbi Bass who found the book first, but was killed by Torvald who was a follower of the Thule. The book and the Golem was passed onto his grandson Aaron but they were eventually found out by Eckhart and captured. They escaped and killed Eckhart and his men who's bodies they burned to make sure none of them would return. The book is then kept safe by Sam and Dean while Aaron vows that he will continue on the work of his grandfather and the Judah Initiative and look after the Golem.
