The art, practice, or skill of magic or sorcery, particularly the summoning or manipulation of ghosts and spirits.
Compound of 'ghost' (from Old English 'gāst') plus 'craft' (skill or art). Appears in older magical and theological texts. The term suggests systematic ghostly knowledge rather than random hauntings.
Medieval writers treated 'ghostcraft' like a real discipline—they believed some people studied ghost-summoning techniques like modern chemistry, which is why grimoires read like old science textbooks!
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