Necromancy (pronounced /nkrmnsi/; Greek nekromanteia, via Latin necromantia) in which the practitioner seeks to summon the spirit

t of a deceased person, eith er as an apparition or ghost, or to raise them bodily, for the purpose of divina tion. The Witch of Endor, sometimes called the Medium of Endor, was a woman who called up the ghost of the recently deceased prophet Samuel, at the demand of King Sau l of the Kingdom of Israel in the First Book of Samuel, chapter 28:325.

a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer (Act 19:19 KJVA) Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, an d found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. (1Ch 10:13 KJVA) So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for ask ing counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it; (Lev 20:6 KJVA) And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against t hat soul, and will cut him off from among his people.