Erichtho's reanimated soldier

Tinatawag ding: Erichtho, Ἐριχθώ

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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

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Unang naitala

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

Pinagmulan

Roman (literary)

Italy, Greece

Ano ang sanhi

Kulam

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

Paano ka magiging isa

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

Paano ito gumagalaw

Halos hindi gumagalaw

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

Talino

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Mga kahinaan

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

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Sinaunang mundo

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

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Ano ang sabi ng mga pinagmulan

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

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