Philinnion

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Philinnion is the best-preserved walking-corpse story from classical antiquity. Recorded by Hadrian's freedman Phlegon, it tells of a dead bride who rises physically from her family vault to spend three nights with a house guest. When she is discovered she collapses as a corpse, and the city, on a seer's advice, burns the body beyond its borders and purifies itself. The empty tomb and the civic cremation show that Greeks imagined the returning dead as bodies, and dealt with them accordingly.1

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Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the story is set in the reign of Philip II of Macedon

Origine

Ancient Greek

Grecia

Ce o provoacă

Niciodată explicat

She says only that her visit was permitted by divine will.

Cum devii unul

A young woman of Amphipolis who died about six months after her wedding.

Cum se mișcă

Variază

Leaves her tomb at night in bodily form, eats, drinks and sleeps with a guest in her parents' house, and is gone by day.

Inteligență

Deștept

Puncte slabe

being seen by her parents, at which she dies a second time
burning the body outside the city boundary
sacrifices to Hermes Chthonios and the Eumenides and purification of the temples