Reasons for summoning of ghosts — Mythoi

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Reasons for summoning of ghosts.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Ghost summoned. · view the constellation · filed as E387

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Filed under Ghost summoned.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Ghost summoned in order to talk to it Ghost summoned to get something from it Ghost summoned for purposes of necromancy

Filed beside it

Summoning souls punished: in hour of man's death they overwhelm him Ghost summoned by weeping Ghost summoned by pouring blood of sacrifices into trench Ghosts summoned by sacred book Ghost summoned by music Vigil of husband at wife's grave calls her forth Other means of summoning ghost Ghost summoned – miscellaneous