| Necromancy was considered to be an essential skill for all true fortune- tellers, wizards, and sorcerers. Summoning a spirit involved great preparation and pain on the part of the sorcerer, often including fasting, secret rituals and the recitation of the secret incantations. What happened to the spirit and soul after death? Here are some beliefs of where the spirit and soul go after death: - The spirit left t he corpse and traveled by a torturous path to Hades - The spirit left the body and rose to a spiritual realm - The soul could be sent back to Earth and into some non-human life form as punishment - The spirit died with the corporeal being Purgatory : Neither Heaven or Hell Apparitional sightings continued throughout the Dark and Middle Ages. Many visions of ghosts also appeared in the form of dreams. According to most descriptions from the time, ghosts, in human form were pale and wore sad expressions. The usually showed the marks, such as burns or scars, from the suffering they were enduring in purgatory. Sometimes a ghost might appear in non-human form, such as a ball of light or dove. Almost all ghosts warned the living of the need to obey the sacraments and the laws of the church. Do the dead return? A question asked by many... Many paranormal believers think that the soul or spirit can separate from and return to the body even while a person is alive, allowing an out-of-body experience or a near-death experience, which we like to call an astral body, which acts as a vehicle and carries the soul on its journeys. Some claim that a ghost or apparition is not a returning soul: it's the astral body doing the traveling. The actual soul stays behind where its supposed to be, either in the still living person or in whatever afterworld it has traveled to after death. |
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