honey and sting

JiMPage363: About to teach a class on "Witches, Wise Men, Ghosts and Demons"
JiMPage363: in Jewish literature and folk tales.
ladydevo: sounds like fun!
ladydevo: you including the Witch of Endor, who was actually a necromancer?
JiMPage363: She was a medium.
JiMPage363: We'll make note of her.
ladydevo: i had a rabbi who said it was the necromancer part that was objectionable -- that she made poor Samuel actually come back from the dead, which was annoying to him.
JiMPage363: Like being called back to Poughkeepsie from Bali.