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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

Ñu ngi koy wooye itam: Erichtho, Ἐριχθώ
Léeb ak cosaanNéew yu dundaatYënguwul lu dul tuutiLiggéeyu dëmmÀddina su yàgg

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

Xeexal ko
Jëkk a bindu
61
Lucan's Pharsalia, begun around AD 61 and left unfinished at his death in AD 65
Cosaan
Roman (literary)
Itali, Gërees
Lan moo ko waral
Liggéeyu dëmm
A Thessalian witch forces a dead man's spirit back into his corpse to make it prophesy.
Naka ngay doone benn
A freshly killed soldier chosen from a battlefield because his lungs are intact and can still produce a voice.
Naka lay yëngoo
Yënguwul lu dul tuuti
The corpse is made to speak; the surviving summaries do not describe it moving about.
Xel
Am na tuuti xel
Fi mu néewe doole
  • the rite ends with the body's burial, which releases him

Kañ la jëkk a feeñ?

Àddina su yàggDiggu jamono1500 ba 18991900 ba 19671968 ba 19992000 ba 20092010 ba tey61

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

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Li sours yi wax

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

Sours yi

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