The Necromancer on Reddit and Other Fairy Tales for the Chronically Online

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Every few months, like clockwork, someone on Reddit “discovers” a real necromancer.

Not a practitioner.
Not a scholar.
Not someone doing quiet, disciplined work in the dark where no one applauds.

No—this one posts a photo.

An open “grimoire.”
Yellowed parchment vibes.
A skull.
Some fake Latin that looks like it was chewed up by a blender and spit back out by an AI with a Hot Topic addiction.



And suddenly the comments are full of:

  • “This feels powerful.”

  • “My third eye is buzzing.”

  • “I can tell this is real.”

Congratulations. You’ve been spiritually catfished by a JPEG.

Let me be very clear:
That image is not a necromantic working.
It’s a mood board.

Real necromancy—folk, ceremonial, ancestral, psychopompic—does not look like Pinterest witchcore cosplay. It looks like structure. It looks like limits. It looks like names you don’t say out loud and offerings you don’t photograph.

What it does not look like is:

  • Unreadable text pretending to be ancient

  • Random sigils thrown together like seasoning

  • A skull slapped in the middle for ✨aesthetic✨

  • Zero context, zero correspondences, zero cost

Necromancy is not vibes.
It is not spooky scrapbooking.
And it is sure as hell not something you post online for karma unless you’re either lying—or stupid.

Here’s the thing the Reddit necromancer crowd doesn’t want to hear:

The dead are specific.
They are not impressed by theatrics.
They do not respond to fake authority.
And they absolutely do not cooperate with people who think “ancient-looking” equals “effective.”

Real workings leave traces:

  • Repetition

  • Constraint

  • Recordkeeping that actually makes sense

  • Or intentional obfuscation that still obeys internal logic

AI can fake a look.
It cannot fake lineage, discipline, or consequence.

So if you see a “spell” that:

  • Can’t be read

  • Can’t be followed

  • Can’t be traced to a tradition or a living practice

  • And exists solely as an image?

That’s not necromancy.

That’s algorithmic witch drag.

And the most dangerous part isn’t that people believe it’s real.

It’s that they stop learning how to tell the difference.

Burn the sage if you must—but for the love of the bones, use your discernment.

The dead aren’t fooled.


Only the living are. See Reddit post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/realwitchcraft/comments/1ps56nc/necromantic_spirit_summoning/


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