This is pretty ghoulish, but I was wondering…Aside from Voodoo, are there any religions/schools of magic/etc. that have a relatively standardized procedure for bringing dead people back to life? The only other culture I can think of that mentions anything similar is ancient Greece, where a couple of people in myths were able to bring (or almost brought) loved ones back my journeying physically to the underworld, and gaining the sympathy of Hades. Does anyone know of any others?
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Christianity seems to spring to mind…
;j
Well, according to Quiet Riot, if you bang your head, you might in fact wake the dead.
That it is possible to raise the dead using “magic” is, if I’m not mistaken, a belief prevalent in the African traditions from which Voodoo and the other Afro-Carribean religions evolved.
Many (most? all?) cultures have stories about ressurections, although not many I can think of have “standardized procedures” to bring people back from the dead Voodoo-style.
Try the link below ( I did a quickie Google search under “necromancy” ). It seems to at least offer some good primary resource books. Maybe you could piece together your own resurrection protocols after some comprehensive research??
Bury them in a pet sematary.
You should have looked in the archives!
Raise Dead? simple;
take material components; (mass cracker soaked in holy water, dried and wrapped in silver foil)
take focus item; (generic holy symbol)
take vocal component; (“Raise Dead!”)
take somatic component; (wave your arms like a goof)
and there you go, one fourth level cleric spell, “Raise Dead”, for all your dead raising needs. of course, you might lose character levels with that. if possible, you should go for a “Ressurection” spell, but that’s 7’th level, so your best bet is to go to you freindly neighborhood Temple of Mitra and pay the high priest the 2100 GP for a “ressurection”. well, or try and find a staff of true raising.
Forklift.
Well, there’s one foolproof way. Ask God that they be raised “in Jesus’s name.” Of course, according to the people accredited to comment on what that phrase means, it implies that one be in a mindset where you have adopted God’s will as your will. Since God seems disinclined to raise the dead, as a general practice, you probably won’t want to raise them either if you adopt that mindset.
So sorry, you’re out of luck on this one.
Well…
Hey, it worked *every single * Saturday matinee. Reliability must count for something. 
Have you tried using Phoenix Down?
Wed the Red Lion to the Golden Unicorn in the temple of Saturn. There union shall yield the Phoenix Egg the yolk of which restores the dead to life.
That second sentence should of course be “There the…”
sigh And I did preview.
In Welsh mythology, fallen warriors could be placed in a cauldron, boiled overnight, and would
rise up in the morning (but could never speak). Sounds pretty close to zombies to me.
This idea was used by LLoyd Alexander in The Black Cauldron, later made into a Disney animated
feature.
And now Bob Dole will read from the Necronomicon…
“EEEYAT SHUB QUAANAAR…”
By using the Morgue’s elevator?
I really am Laughing Out Loud!
I don’t know why that struck me as so hysterical, but it did.