AD&D

Priest spellLevel 3

Speak With Dead

School
Necromancy
Sphere
Divination
Range
1
Components
V / S / M
Duration
Special
Casting time
1 turn
Area of effect
1 creature
Special
Source
PHB

Flavor

The priest briefly recalls a spirit to its corpse, compelling it to answer a few questions.

Mechanics

Compels the spirit of a corpse to answer a limited number of questions (number and how 'fresh' a corpse can be queried scale with the priest's ); the answers are brief and the dead may be terse or cryptic, answering in the language it knew. The corpse must be reasonably intact. : incense/burning herbs and the holy symbol.