Hasagot HaRa'avad on Mishneh Torah, Foreign Worship and Customs of the Nations Chapter 6
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כיצד מעשה האוב זה שהוא עומד ומקטיר. א"א בבית הקברות עושה כן ובעור של אדם מת ומדבר משחיו של מת:
How is enchantry etc. He makes that performance on a graveyard, covered in the skin of a dead person, and speaks from out of the arms of the dead.¹
footnotes: ¹ Where the RABD. got this from is a mystery. The practice of the Witch of En-dor (1 Sam. 28. 12) was performed without a cemetery. C.G.
אלא כל האכסדראות וכו' של אבן היו לא של עץ. א"א לשכת העץ בית היתה, בימה של עץ שעושין למלך בשעת הקהל לשעתה היתה. וכן גזוזטרא שהקיפו בעזרת נשים בשמחת בית השואבה לשעתה היתה:
But all corridors etc. The 'Wooden Chamber' was a real dwelling-place; the Wooden Almemor which was made for the king when all came together to hear him expound the Torah once in seven years, was of a temporary construction; so was the gallery around the Women's Court during festivities of the Libation of Water a temporary construction.¹
footnotes: ¹ This evidently was not intended as a contradiction against Maimonides. See Midot, 28. G.