Erichtho's reanimated soldier

Λέγεται και: Erichtho, Ἐριχθώ

Λαογραφία και μύθοιΑπέθαντοςΜετά βίας κινείταιΜαγείαΑρχαίος κόσμος

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.1 2

⚔️ Πολέμησέ το

Πρώτη καταγραφή

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

Προέλευση

Roman (literary)

Ιταλία, Ελλάδα

Τι το προκαλεί

Μαγεία

A Thessalian witch forces a dead man's spirit back into his corpse to make it prophesy.

Πώς γίνεσαι ένα

A freshly killed soldier chosen from a battlefield because his lungs are intact and can still produce a voice.

Πώς κινείται

Μετά βίας κινείται

The corpse is made to speak; the surviving summaries do not describe it moving about.

Ευφυΐα

Κάποια ευφυΐα

Αδύναμα σημεία

the rite ends with the body's burial, which releases him

Πότε εμφανίστηκε για πρώτη φορά;

Αρχαίος κόσμος

Μεσαίωνας

1500–1899

1900–1967

1968–1999

2000–2009

2010 μέχρι σήμερα

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

σημειώσεις πεδίου

Τι λένε οι πηγές

Erichtho lives among graves, gibbets and battlefields and builds her spells from corpses1 2

She fills the body with warm blood, 'lunar poison' and other substances1 2

The spirit refuses to re-enter until she threatens the powers of the underworld1 2

The dead man describes civil war among the shades and gives an ambiguous prophecy to Sextus Pompey1 2

Scholars read the scene as a dark inversion of Aeneas's visit to the Sibyl in Virgil1 2

Dante has Virgil say Erichtho once sent him to the bottom of Hell1 2

Πηγές

Κάθε στοιχείο αυτής της σελίδας προέρχεται από αυτές τις πηγές και είναι γραμμένο με δικά μας λόγια. Βρήκες λάθος; Γράψε μας στο hello@zombiewiki.app.