Grave Robbing: Difference between revisions

== Literature ==

* Jerry Cruncher's side job in ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]].''

* [[Harry Potter|Voldemort]] {{spoiler|steals the Elder Wand from Dumbledore's tomb}} in the last book of the series. {{spoiler|This backfires ''epically''.}}

** And Bill Weasley works as a cursebreaker for Gringott's tomb raiding expeditions in Egypt.

** And ''eating'' the dead.

* Many ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' cards are based around this, usually allowing the exhumed creature to be played again.

** The [[Ravenloft]] adventure ''Ship of Horrors'' pits heroes against a grave-robbing clan {{spoiler|of reanimated corpses}} which provide bodies to a nasty necromancer.

*** According to ''Van Richten's Guide to the Lich'', there's even a high-level spell Ghoul Lattice that makes the work easy by digging a maze of tunnels that connects to all graves and other underground pockets in area that may be a mile or more wide.