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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.
Ifayile No. 002 kwa-446

Erichtho's reanimated soldier

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: Erichtho, Ἐριχθώ
Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloIvuswe ekufeniPhantse ayihambiUbugqwirhaIhlabathi lamandulo

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

Yiphose edabini
Yabhalwa okokuqala
61
Lucan's Pharsalia, begun around AD 61 and left unfinished at his death in AD 65
Imvelaphi
Roman (literary)
IItali, IGrisi
Oko kuyibangelayo
Ubugqwirha
A Thessalian witch forces a dead man's spirit back into his corpse to make it prophesy.
Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
A freshly killed soldier chosen from a battlefield because his lungs are intact and can still produce a voice.
Indlela ehamba ngayo
Phantse ayihambi
The corpse is made to speak; the surviving summaries do not describe it moving about.
Ubukrelekrele
Ubukrelekrele obuthile
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
  • the rite ends with the body's burial, which releases him

Yavela nini okokuqala?

Ihlabathi lamanduloAmaxesha Aphakathi1500 ukuya ku-18991900 ukuya ku-19671968 ukuya ku-19992000 ukuya ku-20092010 ukuza kuthi ga namhlanje61

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

amanqaku ophando

Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

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

Imithombo

  1. Erichtho - Wikipedia
  2. Pharsalia - Wikipedia

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Iintsomi zemveli ezivela kumazwe afanayo

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

Ixesha elinye: Ihlabathi lamandulo

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