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Polykritos

También llamado: Polycritus the Aetolarch, Polykritos the Aitolian
Folclore y mitosNo muertoCorrenMundo antiguo

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

⚔️ Combatirlo
Primer registro
150
Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the story is set in Aetolia in the 3rd century BC
Origen
Ancient Greek
Grecia
Qué lo causa
Nunca explicado
He returns at the moment the assembly debates the fate of his newborn child.
Cómo te conviertes en uno
An Aetolian magistrate who died on the fourth night of his marriage.
Cómo se mueve
Corren
Appears suddenly in the public assembly dressed in black, speaks, then seizes his child and tears it apart.
Inteligencia
Listo
Puntos débiles
  • none: stones thrown by the crowd did not hurt him, and he vanished of his own accord

¿Cuándo apareció por primera vez?

Mundo antiguo
Edad Media
De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
De 1968 a 1999
De 2000 a 2009
De 2010 a hoy
150

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

notas de campo

Qué dicen las fuentes

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

¿Podrías huir de él?

Clase de velocidad según cómo la describen las fuentes (corren), no una medición.

Tú, caminando unos 5 km/h
Tú, trotando unos 10 km/h
Un adulto en forma a la carrera unos 24 km/h
Polykritos unos 24 km/h
Un ciclista rápido unos 37 km/h

Fuentes

  1. Phlegon, Book of Marvels - ToposText

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

Misma época: Mundo antiguo

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