The First Ghost Stories Go Back to the Beginning of Recorded History. Magic, Necromancy, Exorcism

The First Ghost Stories Go Back to the Beginning of Recorded History. Magic, Necromancy, Exorcism
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Sumerian Cuneiform Script on Clay Tablets to be exact. They Believed in gods, Demons and Ghosts.
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Apparently getting rid of the Dead who Kept Returning was a common problem.
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Archaeology Now
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Learn how the near-universal belief in ghosts goes back to the beginning of time. Discover how the oldest known writing, in cuneiform script on tablets of clay, gives us a full picture of the ancient Mesopotamian ghost experience: who might be expected to be a ghost, how to keep the dead happy in the netherworld, how to banish annoying ghosts that keep appearing and how to summon the dead to come back and disclose the future.
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BOOKMARKS:
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Introduction
0:00
Sumerian and Assyrian
2:50
Ghosts and Demons
3:41
Ancient Magicians
7:02
Stone Amulet
8:00
Any Evil
10:06
The Exorcist
13:11
Mumbo Jumbo
23:17
Between the Rulings
30:27
Marriage Bureau
36:19
The Underworld
40:13
Necromancy
43:56
The First Ghost
47:24
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