Clairvius Necromancy In The Return Of The King

According to Canadian Ethnobotanist Wade Davis the main drug was derived from the poisonous tetrodotoxins of puffer fish. He mentioned one concoction which contained that toxin along with bufo toads, a crushed human infant skull, sea worm, blue lizards, mimosa and itchy peas. The ingredients were powdered and perhaps ingested, or blown into the face of an intended victim. As it entered the blood stream it caused “death” in about a half hour. The death is permanent if the toxin dose is slightly too large. Otherwise it simulates death with a deep suspended coma. Either way the victim is buried.
One Zombie named Clairvius Narcisse returned to his home town in Haiti 18 years after his burial in 1962. He told of being drugged and made a zombie.
More typically it refers to summoning a spirit to appear – for the purpose of divining future events as in shamanism, or disseminating hidden knowledge or weirdly, to use the deceased as a weapon. A prime example of the latter was depicted in the movie “The Return of the King” when Aragorn called warrior spirits to honor an ancient pledge.
Necromancy was prevalent throughout antiquity with records of its practice in Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome. In his Geographica, Strabo refers to "diviners by the dead" to be prevalent in Persia. It was widespread among the Sabians, or "star-worshipers", and the Etruscans. And as mentioned before by bokors who stupefy zombies. Today we use Medical Examiners to divine information from the dead.
Pyromancy, derived visions from flames and trailing smoke wisps. Use of pyromancy probably began in prehistoric times since staring at flames was likely a mesmerizing form of
Results are based on the color, ebb and flow of the water, or by ripples produced when pebbles are dropped in a pool. The Jesuit M.A Del Rio (1551–1608) described several methods other of hydromancy. The first method described depicts a ring hanging by a string that is dipped into a vessel of water which was shaken. A judgment or prediction is made by the number of times which the ring strikes the sides of the vessel. Other times three pebbles were thrown into standing water and observations were made from the circles formed when the objects struck or agitated the water.
Others interpreted the colors of the water and figures appearing in it. This branch of the divination proved so important that it was given a separate name - the divination of fountains, whose waters were frequently visited. In the 2nd century AD Pausanias described the fountain near Epidaurus into which loaves were thrown by worshippers hoping to receive an oracle from the goddess. Accepted loaves sank in the water, which meant good fortune.
In other cases mysterious words were pronounced over a glass of water then observations were made of its spontaneous ebullience, or the feelings it evoked. Another method was to let a drop of oil fall into a vessel of water providing a mirror through which things became visible. Del Rio called this, the Modus