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

Imadziwikanso kuti: Erichtho, Ἐριχθώ
Nthano ndi zikhulupiriroWakufa wamoyoImangoyenda pang'onoUfitiDziko lakale

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

Amenyane!
Inalembedwa koyamba
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Lucan's Pharsalia, begun around AD 61 and left unfinished at his death in AD 65
Kochokera
Roman (literary)
Italiya, Greece
Chimayambitsa
Ufiti
A Thessalian witch forces a dead man's spirit back into his corpse to make it prophesy.
Momwe umasandukira zombie
A freshly killed soldier chosen from a battlefield because his lungs are intact and can still produce a voice.
Momwe imayendera
Imangoyenda pang'ono
The corpse is made to speak; the surviving summaries do not describe it moving about.
Nzeru
Nzeru pang'ono
Malo ofooka
  • the rite ends with the body's burial, which releases him

Inaoneka liti koyamba?

Dziko lakaleNyengo Zapakati1500 mpaka 18991900 mpaka 19671968 mpaka 19992000 mpaka 20092010 mpaka lero61

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

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Zimene magwero akunena

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

Magwero

  1. Erichtho - Wikipedia
  2. Pharsalia - Wikipedia

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Nthano zochokera ku mayiko omwewo

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

Nyengo yomweyo: Dziko lakale

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