- 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)...
- with the
Thessalian witch Erichtho, who
practices necromancy and
inhabits deserted graves,
feeding on
rotting corpses.
Erichtho, it is said, can arrest...
-
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
