The film is based on the recall of the Snedeker family of Southington, Connecticut from 1986 who hired Ed and Lorraine Warren who contended that mortuary staff had
practice necromancy and necrophilia with the corpses.
Such ideas always have given rise to a special class of people, witches and wizards, who
practice necromancy, and in the Old Testament they are repeatedly mentioned in terms of denunciation.
Not exact matches
The fact that
necromancy was strongly forbidden shows that it was still
practiced, though no longer officially approved.