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Erichtho's reanimated soldier

Poznat i kao: Erichtho, Ἐριχθώ
Folklor i mitoviNemrtavJedva se mičeČarobnjaštvoAntički svijet

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

⚔️ Bori se protiv njega
Prvi zapis
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Lucan's Pharsalia, begun around AD 61 and left unfinished at his death in AD 65
Podrijetlo
Roman (literary)
Italija, Grčka
Što ga uzrokuje
Čarobnjaštvo
A Thessalian witch forces a dead man's spirit back into his corpse to make it prophesy.
Kako postaješ jedan od njih
A freshly killed soldier chosen from a battlefield because his lungs are intact and can still produce a voice.
Kako se kreće
Jedva se miče
The corpse is made to speak; the surviving summaries do not describe it moving about.
Inteligencija
Malo inteligencije
Slabe točke
  • the rite ends with the body's burial, which releases him

Kad se prvi put pojavio?

Antički svijet
Srednji vijek
1500. – 1899.
1900. – 1967.
1968. – 1999.
2000. – 2009.
2010. do danas
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Lucan's Pharsalia, begun around AD 61 and left unfinished at his death in AD 65

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Što kažu izvori

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

Izvori

  1. Erichtho - Wikipedia
  2. Pharsalia - Wikipedia

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Folklor iz istih krajeva

VrykolakasGreek, 1645PhilinnionAncient Greek, 150The corpse of ThelyphronRoman (literary), 170Vampire of VeniceVenetian (Italy), 1576Vrykolakas of MykonosGreek, 1701BouplagosAncient Greek / Roman, 150

Isto doba: Antički svijet

Ishtar's army of the deadMesopotamian (Akkadian), 1000. pr. Kr.Lugnano child burialLate Roman (Italy), 450PolykritosAncient Greek, 150