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Polykritos

Também chamado: Polycritus the Aetolarch, Polykritos the Aitolian
Folclore e mitosMorto-vivoCorremMundo antigo

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

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Primeiro registo
150
Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the story is set in Aetolia in the 3rd century BC
Origem
Ancient Greek
Grécia
O que o causa
Nunca explicado
He returns at the moment the assembly debates the fate of his newborn child.
Como te tornas um
An Aetolian magistrate who died on the fourth night of his marriage.
Como se move
Correm
Appears suddenly in the public assembly dressed in black, speaks, then seizes his child and tears it apart.
Inteligência
Esperto
Pontos fracos
  • none: stones thrown by the crowd did not hurt him, and he vanished of his own accord

Quando apareceu pela primeira vez?

Mundo antigo
Idade Média
De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
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150

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

notas de campo

O que dizem as fontes

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

Conseguias fugir dele?

Classe de velocidade segundo a descrição das fontes (correm), não uma medição.

Tu, a andar cerca de 5 km/h
Tu, a correr cerca de 10 km/h
Um adulto em forma a fazer um sprint cerca de 24 km/h
Polykritos cerca de 24 km/h
Um ciclista rápido cerca de 37 km/h

Fontes

  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

Mesma época: Mundo antigo

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