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Polykritos

Ibuye libizwe: Polycritus the Aetolarch, Polykritos the Aitolian
Amasiko nezinganekwaneAbangafiIyagijimaIzwe lasendulo

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

⚔️ Lwa nayo
Kuqoshwe kuqala
150
Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the story is set in Aetolia in the 3rd century BC
Imvelaphi
Ancient Greek
I-Greece
Okuyibangela
Akuchazwanga
He returns at the moment the assembly debates the fate of his newborn child.
Indlela oba ngayo yinye
An Aetolian magistrate who died on the fourth night of his marriage.
Indlela inyakaza ngayo
Iyagijima
Appears suddenly in the public assembly dressed in black, speaks, then seizes his child and tears it apart.
Ubuhlakani
Ohlakaniphile
Izindawo ezibuthaka
  • none: stones thrown by the crowd did not hurt him, and he vanished of his own accord

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Izwe lasendulo
Ezikhathini Eziphakathi
1500 kuya ku-1899
1900 kuya ku-1967
1968 kuya ku-1999
2000 kuya ku-2009
2010 kuya namuhla
150

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

amanothi ensimini

Okushiwo yimithombo

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

Ubungayidlula ngokugijima?

Isigaba sejubane esisuka ekuchazweni yimithombo (iyagijima), hhayi isilinganiso.

Wena, uhamba cishe 5 km/h
Wena, ugijima kancane cishe 10 km/h
Umuntu omdala olungile egijima ngamandla cishe 24 km/h
Polykritos cishe 24 km/h
Umgibeli webhayisikili osheshayo cishe 37 km/h

Imithombo

  1. Phlegon, Book of Marvels - ToposText

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