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Illustration of Erichtho's reanimated soldier
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Erichtho's reanimated soldier

Tamén chamado: Erichtho, Ἐριχθώ
Folclore e mitoMorto viventeApenas se moveBruxaríaMundo antigo

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

Á batalla!
Primeiro rexistro
61
Lucan's Pharsalia, begun around AD 61 and left unfinished at his death in AD 65
Orixe
Roman (literary)
Italia, Grecia
Que o causa
Bruxaría
A Thessalian witch forces a dead man's spirit back into his corpse to make it prophesy.
Como te convertes nun
A freshly killed soldier chosen from a battlefield because his lungs are intact and can still produce a voice.
Como se move
Apenas se move
The corpse is made to speak; the surviving summaries do not describe it moving about.
Intelixencia
Algo de intelixencia
Puntos débiles
  • the rite ends with the body's burial, which releases him

Cando apareceu por primeira vez?

Mundo antigoIdade MediaDe 1500 a 1899De 1900 a 1967De 1968 a 1999De 2000 a 2009De 2010 ata hoxe61

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

notas de campo

O que din as fontes

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

Fontes

  1. Erichtho - Wikipedia
  2. Pharsalia - Wikipedia

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Folclore das mesmas terras

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

Mesma época: Mundo antigo

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