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Illustration of Erichtho's reanimated soldier
Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
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Erichtho's reanimated soldier

Wɔfrɛ no bio: Erichtho, Ἐριχθώ
Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmAwufoɔ a wɔnantewƐkeka ne ho kakraa biAbayisɛmTete wiase

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

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Wɔdii kan kyerɛw
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Lucan's Pharsalia, begun around AD 61 and left unfinished at his death in AD 65
Mfiase
Roman (literary)
Italy, Greece
Deɛ ɛde ba
Abayisɛm
A Thessalian witch forces a dead man's spirit back into his corpse to make it prophesy.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
A freshly killed soldier chosen from a battlefield because his lungs are intact and can still produce a voice.
Sɛnea ɛkeka ne ho
Ɛkeka ne ho kakraa bi
The corpse is made to speak; the surviving summaries do not describe it moving about.
Nyansa
Nyansa kakra
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • the rite ends with the body's burial, which releases him

Ɛberɛ bɛn na ɛdii kan puee?

Tete wiaseMfinimfini Mmerɛ1500 kɔsi 18991900 kɔsi 19671968 kɔsi 19992000 kɔsi 20092010 kɔsi ɛnnɛ61

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

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Deɛ fibea no ka

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

Fibea

  1. Erichtho - Wikipedia
  2. Pharsalia - Wikipedia

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Tete nsɛm a efi nsase koro no ara so

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

Berɛ koro: Tete wiase

Ishtar's army of the deadMesopotamian (Akkadian), 1000 ansa na KristoLugnano child burialLate Roman (Italy), 450PolykritosAncient Greek, 150
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