# Turn undead (disambiguation)
Turn undead refers to the ability to cause undead monsters to turn and flee from you for a time.  The name comes from Dungeons &amp; Dragons.  In NetHack's punnish fashion, some forms of undead turning can also turn dead things "un-dead" (alive): see the revive article for more details.
"Turn undead" or "undead turning" in NetHack may refer to several concepts:

the #turn extended command, which scares, destroys, or pacifies nearby undead.  Does not revive corpses and eggs.
the spellbook of turn undead, a beam spell that scares undead and revives corpses and eggs
the wand of undead turning, the wand equivalent of the spell
reading the cursed Book of the Dead, which will revive nearby corpses and eggs, along with summoning some undead monsters
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