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- In Roman literature, Erichtho (from Ancient Gr****: Ἐριχθώ) is a legendary Thessalian witch who appears in several literary works. She is noted for her...
- Archive). The rape of Proserpine (1714). With the story of ****tus and Erichtho, from the Pharsalia of Lucan. Translated by Jabez Hughes (c. 1685 – 1731)...
- wishes to know the ****ure. He finds the most powerful witch in Thessaly, Erichtho, and she reanimates the corpse of a dead soldier in a terrifying ceremony...
- animals; and invoke underworld deities and spirits. They include Lucan's Erichtho, Horace's Canidia, Ovid's Dipsas, and A****ius's Meroe. By the early modern...
- and humanism cannot fully understand. Virgil also mentions to Dante how Erichtho sent him to the lowest circle of **** to bring back a spirit from there...
- witchcraft, witches, magic, and sorcery. In Lucan's Pharsalia, the witch Erichtho invokes Hecate as "****phone, who is the third and lowest aspect of Hecate...
- The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West) Empusa (Stardust) Erichtho (Lucan's Pharsalia) Tabitha Evans (Shadow Falls) F Mrs Fairfax (Howl's...
- with the Thessalian witch Erichtho, who practices necromancy and inhabits deserted graves, feeding on rotting corpses. Erichtho, it is said, can arrest...
- animals; and invoke underworld deities and spirits. They include Lucan's Erichtho, Horace's Canidia, Ovid's Dipsas, and A****ius's Meroe.: 62-63  However...
- Proserpine, from Claudian, in three books, with the Story of ****tus and Erichtho from Lucan's Pharsalia, book 6' (London, 1714; another edition, corrected...