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Polykritos

Ñu ngi koy wooye itam: Polycritus the Aetolarch, Polykritos the Aitolian
Léeb ak cosaanNéew yu dundaatDafay dawÀddina su yàgg

Polykritos is the cannibal revenant of Phlegon's Book of Marvels. A dead official walks into the citizens' assembly, demands his infant and, when refused, eats it in front of the crowd, impervious to their stones. The child's severed head delivers the oracle. It is a rare ancient story of a returned corpse eating human flesh, the act that defines the modern zombie.1

Xeexal ko
Jëkk a bindu
150
Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the story is set in Aetolia in the 3rd century BC
Cosaan
Ancient Greek
Gërees
Lan moo ko waral
Kenn leeralul ko mukk
He returns at the moment the assembly debates the fate of his newborn child.
Naka ngay doone benn
An Aetolian magistrate who died on the fourth night of his marriage.
Naka lay yëngoo
Dafay daw
Appears suddenly in the public assembly dressed in black, speaks, then seizes his child and tears it apart.
Xel
Am xel
Fi mu néewe doole
  • none: stones thrown by the crowd did not hurt him, and he vanished of his own accord

Kañ la jëkk a feeñ?

Àddina su yàggDiggu jamono1500 ba 18991900 ba 19671968 ba 19992000 ba 20092010 ba tey150

Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels, 2nd century AD; the story is set in Aetolia in the 3rd century BC

notu gëstu

Li sours yi wax

1

His widow bore a child with both male and female genitals, which seers took as an omen1

2

He told the citizens his body was dead but his goodwill towards them was alive1

3

When they hesitated to hand over the child he devoured it, leaving only the head1

4

The head then spoke a prophecy of war and plague1

5

The Aetolians sent their families away and suffered heavy losses in battle the next year1

Ndax mën nga ko raw ci daw?

Gaawaay bi jóge ci ni sours yi ko melale (dafay daw), du natt.

Yow, ci dox lu tollu ci 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Yow, ci daw ndànk lu tollu ci 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Mag bu am doole buy daw lu gaaw lool lu tollu ci 24 km/h (15 mph)
Polykritos lu tollu ci 24 km/h (15 mph)
Ku gaaw ci welo lu tollu ci 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sours yi

  1. Phlegon, Book of Marvels - ToposText

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