2007-05-28 15:11:37 · 9 answers · asked by matt m 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Animism is the proper term for the worship of spirits, from anima the Latin word for spirit. Many African and South American tribes practise this form of religion -- the worship of ancestral spirits.
Necromancy is the term for the summoning of the dead, from the Greek nekromankia =prophesies-of-the-dead -- since ancestral spirits were traditionally summoned in night-time rituals to tell of the future.
I'm not sure if there is a word for a general "belief" in spirits -- our language of course developed in a time where everyone (all cultures) believed in the existence of spirits in the dead, so there was never a need for a specific word to define believers or non-believers.
2007-05-28 20:56:24 · answer #1 · answered by Thalia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Belief in the Spirits of the Dead.
2007-05-28 16:07:44 · answer #2 · answered by Ard-Drui 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A universal truth amongst all religions in one way or another. The statement is true from Animism to Zoroastrianism.
2007-05-28 17:50:29 · answer #3 · answered by Terry 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ancestrial worship, mormons have some of this, becasue when they babtize the dead into their chruch they think that the dead comes back (spirits) in the temple and thanks them for it.
2007-05-28 15:41:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Voudon is one version.
2007-05-28 16:32:44 · answer #5 · answered by kyralan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crackpoticism?
2007-05-28 15:32:30 · answer #6 · answered by open4one 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
superstition
2007-05-28 19:52:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Naivety or stupidity?
2007-05-28 15:26:56 · answer #8 · answered by iliketorideigohago 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
worshiping.?
2007-05-28 16:08:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋