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Erichtho's reanimated soldier

Auch bekannt als: Erichtho, Ἐριχθώ
Folklore und MythenUntotBewegt sich kaumZaubereiAntike

The necromancy of Erichtho in Lucan's civil-war epic is the most elaborate corpse-raising scene in classical literature. On the eve of the battle of Pharsalus the witch picks a dead soldier, pumps the body full of blood and poisons and bullies its ghost into returning to speak. The scene made her the archetypal necromancer for Dante, Marston and Goethe. It set the pattern of the dead raised unwillingly, by one person's power, for that person's purposes.12

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Erstmals belegt
61
Lucan's Pharsalia, begun around AD 61 and left unfinished at his death in AD 65
Herkunft
Roman (literary)
Italien, Griechenland
Was es auslöst
Zauberei
A Thessalian witch forces a dead man's spirit back into his corpse to make it prophesy.
Wie man einer wird
A freshly killed soldier chosen from a battlefield because his lungs are intact and can still produce a voice.
Wie er sich bewegt
Bewegt sich kaum
The corpse is made to speak; the surviving summaries do not describe it moving about.
Intelligenz
Etwas Intelligenz
Schwachstellen
  • the rite ends with the body's burial, which releases him

Wann tauchte er zuerst auf?

Antike
Mittelalter
1500 bis 1899
1900 bis 1967
1968 bis 1999
2000 bis 2009
2010 bis heute
61

Lucan's Pharsalia, begun around AD 61 and left unfinished at his death in AD 65

Feldnotizen

Was die Quellen sagen

1

Erichtho lives among graves, gibbets and battlefields and builds her spells from corpses12

2

She fills the body with warm blood, 'lunar poison' and other substances12

3

The spirit refuses to re-enter until she threatens the powers of the underworld12

4

The dead man describes civil war among the shades and gives an ambiguous prophecy to Sextus Pompey12

5

Scholars read the scene as a dark inversion of Aeneas's visit to the Sibyl in Virgil12

6

Dante has Virgil say Erichtho once sent him to the bottom of Hell12

Quellen

  1. Erichtho - Wikipedia
  2. Pharsalia - Wikipedia

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Gleiche Epoche: Antike

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