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Erichtho's reanimated soldier

Известен още като: Erichtho, Ἐριχθώ
Фолклор и митовеНемъртъвЕдва се движиМагьосничествоДревният свят

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

Бий се с него
Първо записване
61
Lucan's Pharsalia, begun around AD 61 and left unfinished at his death in AD 65
Произход
Roman (literary)
Италия, Гърция
Какво го причинява
Магьосничество
A Thessalian witch forces a dead man's spirit back into his corpse to make it prophesy.
Как ставаш такъв
A freshly killed soldier chosen from a battlefield because his lungs are intact and can still produce a voice.
Как се движи
Едва се движи
The corpse is made to speak; the surviving summaries do not describe it moving about.
Интелект
Малко интелект
Слаби места
  • the rite ends with the body's burial, which releases him

Кога се появява за първи път?

Древният святСредновековие1500–18991900–19671968–19992000–20092010 до днес61

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

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Какво казват източниците

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

Източници

  1. Erichtho - Wikipedia
  2. Pharsalia - Wikipedia

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Същата епоха: Древният свят

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