The Earliest Ghosts and Necromancers - Spirits Hauntings & Magic in Ancient Sumer Babylon & Assyria

Ghosts and Necromancers are at least as old as civilization itself - but what do we know about these earliest shades of the dead, those that dealt with them and even those that dared to summon and inquire of them? In this episode, we turn to the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia to uncover details about the earliest ghosts, anti-ghost magic, and the first necromancers known to history. Recommended 𒄇 Reading Finkel - The First Ghosts - 978-1529303292 Abusch - Mesopotamian Witchcraft: Toward a History and Understanding of Babylonian Witchcraft Beliefs and Literature - 978-9004123878