revenant
Sign in to saveIn folklore, a revenant is a spirit or animated corpse that is believed to have been resurrected to haunt the living. The word revenant is derived from the Old French word (see also the related French verb ).
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- Revenant graves
- Comparison to other undead
- Selected stories
- William of Newburgh
- Abbot of Burton
- Walter Map
- Popular culture
- See also
- References
- Footnotes
- Further reading
- External links
In folklore, a revenant is a spirit or animated corpse that is believed to have been resurrected to haunt the living. The word revenant is derived from the Old French word (see also the related French verb ).
Revenants are part of the legend of various cultures, including Celtic and Norse mythology, and stories of supposed revenant visitations were documented by English historians in the Middle Ages.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “revenant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.