‘If one wishes to become a true sorcerer. but without having to sell oneself to the Devil, then one should go to the churchyard on a Thursday night between two and four o’clock. This is what one says:
Inhabitants of the Kingdom of Death this payment I borrow from you that sometime you might tell me how to find out that which I wish to know.
Then one goes up to the church-bell and scrapes a little metal from it and keeps it in a bottle. If one then wants to find out about something. whatever it may be, then one goes to the churchyard on a Thursday night and says:
Inhabitants of the Kingdom of Death. Come forth! Tell me how I should restore this coin that I have borrowed from you it shall be paid back to you on that day that I enter with you into eternity.
Then one may learn from the spirits anything that one wishes to know, even if there is no earthly way for you to discover it. Each time one wants to find out about something. then one goes to the churchyard and repeats the ritual.
End-note: The Wise One purloins some bell metal (apparently considered to be akin to a coin) and promises to return it when he joins them in the Kingdom of Death. In exchange for this undertaking he requests knowledge. There is no Christian component to this ritual, simply a rather manipulative contract between the Wise One and the Dead. Also, there is no infernal aspect; the services of the Dead being obtained instead of selling oneself to the Devil.’
— from The Graveyard Wanderers: The Wise Ones and the Dead in Sweden by Tom Johnson Ph.D.
