Necromancy was around for 100,000 years and evolved from shamanism, which calls upon spirits such as the ghosts of ancestors with records of practices in ancient Egypt, Babylonia, Greece, Rome, and China. The oldest literary account of necromancy is found in Homer's Odysseus. Under the direction of Circe, a powerful sorceress, Odysseus travels to the katabasis (underworld) in order to gain insight about his impending voyage home by raising the spirits...
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