The Blood Dance allows a ghost to communicate with a living relative. Necromancers sometimes per-

form this ritual for people in exchange for money or favors.

The vampire must dance and chant for two hours, calling forth the right spirit and entreating all other ghosts to leave the area. While dancing, the vampire pours colored sands and ocean salt on the ground in a precise pattern and then makes the link between the living person and the deceased. If successful, the ghost “appears” within the necromancer’s sand-sigil and the living person can communicate with her for one hour. Failure means the spirit could not be contacted.