According to the Old Testament of the Bible, who consulted the witch of Endor?
Witch of Endor Witch of Endor In the Hebrew Bible, the Witch of Endor is a woman who summons the prophet Samuel's spirit, at the demand of King Saul of the Kingdom of Israel in the 28th chapter of the "First Book of Samuel". The witch is absent from the version of that event recounted in the deuterocanonical "Book of Sirach" (46:19–20). She is called in Biblical Hebrew אֵ֥שֶׁת בַּֽעֲלַת־אֹ֖וב בְּעֵ֥ין דֹּֽור ("’êšeṯ ba‘ălaṯ-’ōḇ bə-‘Êndōr"), "a woman, possessor of an "’ōḇ" at Endor". The word אֹ֖וב "’ōḇ" has been suggested by Harry Hoffner to refer to a ritual pit for summoning the dead
Witch of Endor and the Oracle. It was the belief of James that the witch of Endor was an avid practitioner of necromancy: Other medieval glosses to the Bible also suggested that what the witch summoned was not the ghost of Samuel, but a demon taking his shape or an illusion crafted by the witch. Martin Luther, who believed that the dead were unconscious, read that it was "the Devil's ghost", whereas John Calvin read that "it was not the real Samuel, but a spectre." Spiritualists have taken the story as evidence of spirit mediumship in ancient times. The story has been cited