Necromancy is calling up apparitions of the dead for the purpose of divination and obtaining knowledge....It was considered one of the black arts. Nowadadys the ole, complicated systems are gone, but necromancy still exists with us today in forms that few would recognize as being related to the past designation. Spiritualism, planchettes, divination boards are actually the counterparts of the old rituals; less complicated and more pleasant.......as shown in spell to follow.....
This spell claims to have orginated in the red dragon grimoire dated 1522 but only known copy shows
Le Dragon Rouge 1822 (red dragon, a grimoire)
THE SPELL:
The operator must help a christmas mass at midnight. When the host is raised, he says softly, "Exurgent mortui et od me vurient (the dead rise and come to me). At this point, he was to leave the churchyard, stop at te first gravestone, and say: "Infernal Powers, you who carry disturbance into the Universe leave your somber habitation, and render yourself to the place beyond the Styx River. If you hold in your power him whom I call, I conjure thee, in the name of the King of Kings, to let this person appear at that hour that i choose".
Then the necromancer takes a handful of dirt and casts it about, saying, "May he who is dust wake from his sleep. May he step out of his dust and answer to my demands which I make in the name of the Father of all men".
Dropping to one knee, he faces east until sunrise, at which time he gathers two human bones and holds them like a cross. Carrying the bones, he leaves the graveyard, and throws the two bones into the first church he comes to. Then, walking northward exactly fifty nine hundred steps, he lies on the ground, hands on legs, eyes turned towards the moon, and summons the dead by saying, "Ego sum, te peto et videre queo". The spectre arrives and is questioned. After questioning, it is dismissed by saying, "Return to the kingdom of the chosen. I am happy about your being here". The operator returns to the first gravestone he stopped at, and traces a cross on it with his left hand. (this is seem alot in the St Louis graveyard in new orleans)
The book ends the spell with warning that every detail must be followed exactly, or harm will befall the operator.
