We've seen other vengeful spirits. We've wasted the spiritual remains of sadistic asylum directors, legendary serial killers, unreconstructed rednecks who never got over integration-the list goes on. Every time we hear of a strange series of deaths, odds are there's some kind of angry or unquiet spirit at the bottom of it all, and it's always been that way. Take this version, which dates all the way back to cuneiform tablets from Sumeria that record a being called an ekimmu. If you died violently, especially in a way that mutilated your body, you might find yourself turned into an ekimmu. Like the banshee, the ekimmu was a death omen, howling in the night as a sign that misfortune was on the way. Dad recorded a cuneiform inscription in his journal, listing various types of Sumerian spirits:
The wicked Utukku who slays man alive on the plain.
The wicked Alû who covers (man) like a garment.
The wicked Etimmu, the wicked Gallû, who bind the body.
The Lamme (Lamashtu), the Lammea (Labasu), who cause disease in the body.
The Lilû who wanders in the plain.
They have come night unto a suffering man on the outside.
They have brought about a painful malady in his body.
The curse of evil has come into his body.
An evil goblin they have placed in his body.
An evil bane has come into his body.
Evil poison they have placed in his body.
An evil malediction has come into his parts.
Evil and trouble they have placed in his body.
Poison and taint have come into his body.
They have produced evil.
Evil being, evil face, evil mouth, evil tongue.
Sorcery, venom, slaver, wicked machinations,
Which are produced in the body of the sick man.
O woe for the sick man whom they cause to moan like a šaharrat-pot.
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