A Ritual of Necromancy

A Ritual of Necromancy

Outside the circle, set up an altar with three candles (the original rite calls for red, white, and black) situated around a black and red triangle, with a picture or representation of the person to be called within the triangle. Burn wormwood and horehound as incense.

1. Make your openings/quarter calls as you feel appropriate.

2. Call upon a force which presides over the dead. The original rite calls upon Hecate with a poetic incantation, followed by an ad-lib request for the deity’s help in successfully completing the operation.

3. Call upon the spirit of the deceased. The rite gives the following: “Colpriziana, offina alta nestra, fuaro menut, i name …….. the dead which i seek, …….. thou art the dead that i seek. Spirit of ……, deceased, you may now approach this gate and answer truly to my calling. Berald, Beroald, Balbin, Gab, Gabor, Agaba! Arise, i charge and call thee.” {The magic words are from the Grimoirium Verum, and though i don’t wish to go track the reference down right now, they are clearly corruptions of latin and hebrew words.}

4. Make an X sign, calling the person’s name. When there is some manifestation in the smoke, Say to it: “Allay Fortission Fortissio Allynsen Roa!” which is also a combination of hebrew and latin. The intent of the words seems to be the giving of strength (fortis) and breath (ruach).

5. Do your business with the deceased.

6. When you wish it to depart, say “Go, Go departed shades by Omgroma Epic Sayoc, Satony, Degony, Eparigon, Galiganon, Zogogen, Ferstigon. I License thee to depart unto thy proper place and be there peace between us evermore.”

7. Close shop.

Incidentally, the rite from the Grimoirium Verum is not nearly as explicit, has different components, and was most likely used to *raise* the dead rather than to evoke them. The process is kept alive today in the caribbean with the aid of certain frogs and fish, and it is possible that the french grimoire records an ancestor of the practice. In both the very real carribbean and the hypothetical 17th century french cases, the victim of zombification is only “mostly dead” and thus the rites fall under the domain of psychological manipulations and not of magic.

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  1. It certainly has the elements in the right place. And, yes, the Latin and Hebrew are off, because he’s really using a combo of Hebrew, French, Latin, and Italian…why ? No clue, but, his binding and banishing words are Hebrew. So, he’s probably following 15th-16th Century Alchemical tradition in his conjuration and, thus, uses the Hebrew ( a favored Alchemical script at the time and associated with Conjuration in an Angelic plane ) and he’s commanding the shade in French, Latin, and Italian, and Hebrew. perhaps, because he doesnt know what language the shade understands ? He’s commanding the shade to breathe deeply. He wants a strong manifestation. This is something that is a repetitive theme in Necromantic literature. Tenuous, faintly-defined, and brief manifestations of the shade are frequently the case when the evocations work and the practitioners that wrote on the subject often mentioned that detail and suggested strategies to make the manifestation stronger. And when he’s accomplished whatever he wishes to accomplish with the shade, he banishes it via words of Power. Usually, they wanted to get answers from the Dead, find out their hidden secrets. Or that is what the European literature reflects.

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