God says of necromancy & mediums: Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them:
Lev. 19:31
The Dead are Dead: All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust. For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Job 34:15/ Eccl. 9:5,6
Q: So how did the pagans get so caught up in this Nonsense? Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the
knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they
do what ought not to be done.
Rom. 1:8 NIV
**Now whether she did this or not (some believe her character was drawn upon from legends of Thessalian witches) it illustrates what types of activities they engaged in--and/or dwelt upon with their depraved minds.
"....chilling case of pagan necromancy comes from the 1st-century Roman
historian Lucan. In this story, Lucan describes the craft of Erictho, a
medium who summons a spirit from the grave to reveal to the consul
Pompey (who’d died in 48 BC) the outcome of his impending battle with Julius Caesar (who’d died in 44 BC). Lucan writes:
She chose a corpse and drew it along with the neck noosed,and in the dead man’s noose she inserted a hook … Then she began by piercing the breast of the corpse with fresh wounds, which she filled with hot blood … [Erictho mumbled:] ‘I never chant these spells when fasting from human flesh’ … She raised her head and foaming mouth and saw beside her the ghost of the unburied corpse … The dead man quivered in every limb; the sinews were strained, and he rose, not slowly or limb by limb, but rebounding from the earth and standing erect at once." aeon
