Medieval echo fragment

Daniel Allen Zachery, an apparent pseudonym for a medieval of classical scholar, reported the discovery a fragment of text from an unascribed ancient Greek play based on the story of Echo and Narcissus. The fragment was purportedly discovered in the collection of Catherine, Countess of Caithness at Castle Mey in northern Scotland. Caithness was a sometime member of the Theosophical Society, defender of spiritualist mediums, and author of a book promulgating a blend of spiritualism with eastern reincarnationist thought, sympathetic to Allan Kardec’s spiritist movement. The fragment includes dialogue and a stage direction indicating that the audience should “attune themselves to the voice of the shadows.” Zachery argues that participants in this drama would have been members of an ancient cult who performed the text in order to make contact with some sort of supernatural entity. Zachery ascribes this idea to a medieval author he calls Pseudo-Albertus, a writer who was not the Dominican friar and alchemist Albertus Magnus but wrote under his name. There is no evidence of such an author advancing any such theory outside of Zachery’s own piece.

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