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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.
Galmee Lak. 002, 446 keessaa

Erichtho's reanimated soldier

Maqaa biraa: Erichtho, Ἐριχθώ
Seenaa aadaa fi afoolaDu'aa ka'eHammas hin sochoo'uFalfalaAddunyaa durii

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

Lolsiisi
Yeroo jalqabaaf kan galmeeffame
61
Lucan's Pharsalia, begun around AD 61 and left unfinished at his death in AD 65
Ka'umsa
Roman (literary)
Xaaliyaanii, Giriik
Maaltu isa fida
Falfala
A Thessalian witch forces a dead man's spirit back into his corpse to make it prophesy.
Akkamitti isa taata
A freshly killed soldier chosen from a battlefield because his lungs are intact and can still produce a voice.
Akkamitti sochoo'a
Hammas hin sochoo'u
The corpse is made to speak; the surviving summaries do not describe it moving about.
Beekumsa
Beekumsa muraasa
Bakkeewwan laafoo
  • the rite ends with the body's burial, which releases him

Yoom jalqaba mul'ate?

Addunyaa duriiJaarraa Gidduugaleessaa1500 hanga 18991900 hanga 19671968 hanga 19992000 hanga 20092010 hanga har'aa61

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

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Maddoonni maal jedhu

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

Maddoota

  1. Erichtho - Wikipedia
  2. Pharsalia - Wikipedia

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

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