DrZoidberg
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I just spent a week in Greece and took an hour out of my busy swimming schedule to visit this site.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/necromanteion-of-ephyra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necromanteion_of_Acheron
https://goo.gl/maps/kmvYWyMw9icbUyZF6
As always when visiting ancient sites it's rarely more than a pile of rocks, and the story is more fascinating than the actual location. I still thought it was cool to climb an actual necromancers tower.
The coffee at the café nearby certainly did animate my deadly tired limbs. OOOOoooh... magic!! The legends are true?
Apparently pilgrims went there to speak to the dead. They sat in the dark for a month eating nothing but neurotoxic lupin beans and then, by magic, could talk to the dead. Worth noting is that anybody would hallucinate wildly after doing that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupin_bean
It's not much of a discussion rather than me just sharing something I thought was cool.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/necromanteion-of-ephyra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necromanteion_of_Acheron
https://goo.gl/maps/kmvYWyMw9icbUyZF6
As always when visiting ancient sites it's rarely more than a pile of rocks, and the story is more fascinating than the actual location. I still thought it was cool to climb an actual necromancers tower.
The coffee at the café nearby certainly did animate my deadly tired limbs. OOOOoooh... magic!! The legends are true?
Apparently pilgrims went there to speak to the dead. They sat in the dark for a month eating nothing but neurotoxic lupin beans and then, by magic, could talk to the dead. Worth noting is that anybody would hallucinate wildly after doing that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupin_bean
It's not much of a discussion rather than me just sharing something I thought was cool.