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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

E boetse e bitswa: Erichtho, Ἐριχθώ
Ditshomo le dinonwaneBafu ba tsohilengE batla e sa sisinyeheBoloiLefatshe la boholoholo

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

Di lwantshe
E ngotswe ka lekgetlo la pele
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Lucan's Pharsalia, begun around AD 61 and left unfinished at his death in AD 65
Tshimoloho
Roman (literary)
Italy, Gerike
Se e bakang
Boloi
A Thessalian witch forces a dead man's spirit back into his corpse to make it prophesy.
Kamoo o fetohang e nngwe ya tsona kateng
A freshly killed soldier chosen from a battlefield because his lungs are intact and can still produce a voice.
Kamoo e tsamayang kateng
E batla e sa sisinyehe
The corpse is made to speak; the surviving summaries do not describe it moving about.
Bohlale
Bohlale bo itseng
Dintlha tse fokolang
  • the rite ends with the body's burial, which releases him

E hlahile neng ka lekgetlo la pele?

Lefatshe la boholoholoMehla e Bohareng1500 ho isa 18991900 ho isa 19671968 ho isa 19992000 ho isa 20092010 ho fihlela kajeno61

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

dinoutu tsa patlisiso

Seo mehlodi e se buang

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

Mehlodi

  1. Erichtho - Wikipedia
  2. Pharsalia - Wikipedia

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Ditshomo tsa dinaha tseo

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

Mehla e tshwanang: Lefatshe la boholoholo

Ishtar's army of the deadMesopotamian (Akkadian), 1000 pele ho KresteLugnano child burialLate Roman (Italy), 450PolykritosAncient Greek, 150
Fepa letshweleFana ka tjhelete ya teboho