The law that God gave his people in ancient Israel stated: “There should not be found in you... anyone who employs divination, a practicer of magic or anyone who looks for omens or a sorcerer, or one who binds others with a spell or anyone who consults a spirit medium or a professional foreteller of events or anyone who inquires of the dead. For everybody doing these things is something detestable to Jehovah. ”
लेखाच्या सुरुवातीला दिलेल्या उदाहरणानुसार, जिवंत व्यक्‍ती मृत व्यक्‍तीशी संवाद साधू शकते आणि भूतविद्या केल्याने मिळालेली माहिती मृतांकडून असते या गोष्टीवर बरेच लोक विश्‍वास ठेवतात.