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Polykritos

Tamén chamado: Polycritus the Aetolarch, Polykritos the Aitolian
Folclore e mitoMorto viventeCorreMundo antigo

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

Á batalla!
Primeiro rexistro
150
Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the story is set in Aetolia in the 3rd century BC
Orixe
Ancient Greek
Grecia
Que o causa
Nunca se explica
He returns at the moment the assembly debates the fate of his newborn child.
Como te convertes nun
An Aetolian magistrate who died on the fourth night of his marriage.
Como se move
Corre
Appears suddenly in the public assembly dressed in black, speaks, then seizes his child and tears it apart.
Intelixencia
Listo
Puntos débiles
  • none: stones thrown by the crowd did not hurt him, and he vanished of his own accord

Cando apareceu por primeira vez?

Mundo antigoIdade MediaDe 1500 a 1899De 1900 a 1967De 1968 a 1999De 2000 a 2009De 2010 ata hoxe150

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

notas de campo

O que din as fontes

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

Poderías correr máis ca el?

Clase de velocidade segundo como o describen as fontes (corre), non unha medición.

Ti, camiñando uns 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ti, trotando uns 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Un adulto en forma a toda velocidade uns 24 km/h (15 mph)
Polykritos uns 24 km/h (15 mph)
Un ciclista rápido uns 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fontes

  1. Phlegon, Book of Marvels - ToposText

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Folclore das mesmas terras

Erichtho's reanimated soldierRoman (literary), 61VrykolakasGreek, 1645PhilinnionAncient Greek, 150The corpse of ThelyphronRoman (literary), 170Vrykolakas of MykonosGreek, 1701BouplagosAncient Greek / Roman, 150

Mesma época: Mundo antigo

Ishtar's army of the deadMesopotamian (Akkadian), 1000 a.C.Lugnano child burialLate Roman (Italy), 450
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