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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

Rinonziwo: Erichtho, Ἐριχθώ
Ngano nezvitendero zvekareVakafa vakamukaRinongofamba zvishoma kwazvoUroyiNyika yekare

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

Ita hondo
Kutanga kunyorwa
61
Lucan's Pharsalia, begun around AD 61 and left unfinished at his death in AD 65
Kwakabva
Roman (literary)
Italy, Greece
Chikonzero chacho
Uroyi
A Thessalian witch forces a dead man's spirit back into his corpse to make it prophesy.
Kuti munhu anova zombie sei
A freshly killed soldier chosen from a battlefield because his lungs are intact and can still produce a voice.
Mafambiro aro
Rinongofamba zvishoma kwazvo
The corpse is made to speak; the surviving summaries do not describe it moving about.
Njere
Njere shoma
Utera
  • the rite ends with the body's burial, which releases him

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Nyika yekareNguva dzepakati1500 kusvika 18991900 kusvika 19671968 kusvika 19992000 kusvika 20092010 kusvika nhasi61

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

zvinyorwa zvemumunda

Zvinotaurwa nezvinyorwa

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

Zvinyorwa

  1. Erichtho - Wikipedia
  2. Pharsalia - Wikipedia

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Ngano dzekunyika dzimwe chete

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

Nguva imwe chete: Nyika yekare

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