Ancient necropoleis were cities for the dead where the dead might be active in this world, appearing, speaking, and performing actions that could be perceived by and affect the living.

[he] also keeps a number of cows, one of which has a bell hung round its neck, which keeps ringing with every motion of the cow. The other cows follow the “bell cow,” and thus their whereabouts in the forest are readily got at.

This set the pattern for four years, as the two monarchs minueted around the vast Commonwealth, never again to face each other personally in battle.

Only about a hundred years ago, wireless was a new technology.