Lytcher

A lytcher is a person often in the employ of a necromancer who digs up recently buried bodies for the same for the purposes of a necromancer's dark magic and studies. The practice of a lytching is known as lytchery or sometimes as lytching. It is a felony in most jurisdictions and typically subject to the death penalty. Some social activists claim lytchery is quietly condoned in some countries with the bodies of mendicants or criminals who are executed or die in prison without any family to claim their bodies due to corrupt officials.

A lytchlooter is one, sometimes employed as part of a commercial enterprise, who recovers the bodies of the slain after a battle or disaster for the purpose of necromancy either for himself or more often for a necromancer who may reward him. The practice is forbidden in numerous treaties, but has been documented even in the present century. Historically, criminal organizations or certain shadier priestly orders would recover the bodies of the slain in battle under cover of darkness, especially if the battle took place in the evening or at night.

See Also

• Necrochus
• Necromancy