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The pagan neighbors of ancient Israel conducted necromancy and sought contact with ancestor spirits, but they were really worshiping the demon spirits of the Nephilim, he suggested. The ancient Amorite kingdom, he continued, was said to know about the Rephaim spirits whom they referred to as “travelers,” who could pass between the realms of the living and the dead. Gilbert also talked about how the Greek demi-gods like Hercules became “daemons” or friendly spirits when they died. Yet new scholarship, he noted, has shown that these demi-gods arose from the same origin or concept as the demonic Rephaim.

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