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Polykritos

Auch bekannt als: Polycritus the Aetolarch, Polykritos the Aitolian
Folklore und MythenUntotRenntAntike

Polykritos is the cannibal revenant of Phlegon's Book of Marvels. A dead official walks into the citizens' assembly, demands his infant and, when refused, eats it in front of the crowd, impervious to their stones. The child's severed head delivers the oracle. It is a rare ancient story of a returned corpse eating human flesh, the act that defines the modern zombie.1

⚔️ Gegen ihn kämpfen
Erstmals belegt
150
Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the story is set in Aetolia in the 3rd century BC
Herkunft
Ancient Greek
Griechenland
Was es auslöst
Nie erklärt
He returns at the moment the assembly debates the fate of his newborn child.
Wie man einer wird
An Aetolian magistrate who died on the fourth night of his marriage.
Wie er sich bewegt
Rennt
Appears suddenly in the public assembly dressed in black, speaks, then seizes his child and tears it apart.
Intelligenz
Clever
Schwachstellen
  • none: stones thrown by the crowd did not hurt him, and he vanished of his own accord

Wann tauchte er zuerst auf?

Antike
Mittelalter
1500 bis 1899
1900 bis 1967
1968 bis 1999
2000 bis 2009
2010 bis heute
150

Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the story is set in Aetolia in the 3rd century BC

Feldnotizen

Was die Quellen sagen

1

His widow bore a child with both male and female genitals, which seers took as an omen1

2

He told the citizens his body was dead but his goodwill towards them was alive1

3

When they hesitated to hand over the child he devoured it, leaving only the head1

4

The head then spoke a prophecy of war and plague1

5

The Aetolians sent their families away and suffered heavy losses in battle the next year1

Könntest du ihm davonlaufen?

Tempoklasse nach der Beschreibung der Quellen (rennt), keine Messung.

Du, gehend etwa 5 km/h
Du, joggend etwa 10 km/h
Ein fitter Erwachsener im Sprint etwa 24 km/h
Polykritos etwa 24 km/h
Ein schneller Radfahrer etwa 37 km/h

Quellen

  1. Phlegon, Book of Marvels - ToposText

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Folklore aus denselben Ländern

Erichtho's reanimated soldierRoman (literary), 61VrykolakasGreek, 1645PhilinnionAncient Greek, 150The corpse of ThelyphronRoman (literary), 170Vrykolakas of MykonosGreek, 1701BouplagosAncient Greek / Roman, 150

Gleiche Epoche: Antike

Ishtar's army of the deadMesopotamian (Akkadian), 1000 v. Chr.Lugnano child burialLate Roman (Italy), 450