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Episode CLXXVIII - Witches in Roman Literature

Emperors of Rome

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Sextus Pompey and the Creation of a Zombie

Sextus Pompey created a zombie to tell the future of Thessaly. She dressed as a witch, with hair bound with wreaths of vipers and robes garbed in crazed colours. Her plan was to bring back mythology's monsters by drinking from their chests. But what she actually did is fill them with blood-soaked lunar poisons that had been collected during the day.

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