It isn’t only modern society that has become fascinated by the undead. Ancient Greeks on the island of Sicily had a fear of revenants so dire they weighed bodies down with rocks and amphora pieces to keep them from rising from their graves to haunt the living.
On the other hand and paradoxically, wrote postdoctoral fellow in the department of history of art and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver in a Popular Archaeology article, the Greeks also tried to contact the dead for divination through a practice called necromancy. Spells inscribed on sheets of lead were placed in graves during nighttime ceremonies, entreating the dead to help with all sorts of tasks from avenging murder to gaining advantage in business.
