Necromancy: What is It?

Soooo, who knows what Necromancy REALLY is? Any takers? NO? Is it some evil, half-cracked nutjob sorcerer with plans for world domination, who hopes to achieve his goal by raising the corpses of dead people in the form of flesh eating zombies with the strength of ten men and an unquenchable thirst for flesh? *inhale deeply* NO! In fact, it is

Necromancy is a Greek word that refers to a form of magic in which the practitioner seeks to summon "operative spirits" or "spirits of divination", for multiple reasons, from spiritual protection to wisdom, to truth and to great power. Though commonly thought to be an evil form of sorcery, or the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world, it is actually a very spiritual art. Shamans, druids, and the like, thought that they could contact other dimensions and realms through the dead, like a long-distance phone call to anywhere not on earth. Necromancy is a misunderstood act that not only involves just conjuring up the dead, even for prophesying. The so-called “undead” they used were actually just regular people who martyred themselves by offering their bodies to the good of the ritual. They were given numerous types of poisons, foods, chemicals and surgical transformations of all kinds that put them in a state of pseudo-death. This is like connecting the call. Through the dead body, the living soul could be “tuned” like a radio by chanting, humming and prayers performed by the shamans, and contact other realms.

The Definition of "Undead"
First and foremost, the term "undead" is a collective name for fictional, mythological, or legendary beings that are deceased yet behave as if they are alive. Undead may be either corporeal (physically able to touch see, and communicate with them) or non-corporeal (spiritual and ghostly; unable to touch them, difficult to see them. The phenomenon of spirits contacting us from "beyond the grave" has existed since the beginning of time.