Editing Revenant (section)

{{short description|Ghost or corpse brought to life to terrorize the living}}
{{about|the spirits or animated corpses brought to life to terrorize the living||Revenant (disambiguation)}}
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|Grouping     = [[Legendary creature]]
|Sub_Grouping = [[Undead]]

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|Region       = {{hlist|Americas (especially the [[West Indies]])|Europe|Asia|Oceania|Africa}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Calmet|first1=Augustin|title=Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants: of Hungary, Moravia, et al. The Complete Volumes I & II. 2016|date=30 December 2015|isbn=978-1-5331-4568-0|page=7|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform }}</ref><ref name=Grimm>{{cite web|url=http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/WBB/woerterbuecher/dwb/wbgui?lemid=GV00025 |title=Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm. 16 Bde. (in 32 Teilbänden). Leipzig: S. Hirzel 1854–1960|access-date=2006-06-13| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070926215950/http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/WBB/woerterbuecher/dwb/wbgui?lemid=GV00025| archive-date = 26 September 2007|language=de}}</ref><ref name=MW>{{cite web |title=Vampire |publisher=Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary |url=http://www.merriamwebster.com/dictionary/vampire |access-date=2006-06-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614081137/http://www.merriamwebster.com/dictionary/vampire |archive-date=2006-06-14 }}</ref><ref name=Tresor>{{cite web |url=http://atilf.atilf.fr/dendien/scripts/fast.exe?mot=vampire |title=Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé |access-date=2006-06-13 |language=fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120526220130/http://atilf.atilf.fr/dendien/scripts/fast.exe?mot=vampire |archive-date=2012-05-26 }}</ref><ref name="Dauzat 1938">{{cite book |last=Dauzat |first=Albert|title=Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française |year=1938 |publisher=Librairie Larousse |location=Paris |oclc=904687|language=fr}}</ref>
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In [[folklore]], a '''revenant''' is a spirit or animated corpse that is believed to have been revived from death to haunt the living.<ref name="LindahlMcNamara2000">{{cite book|author1=Carl Lindahl|author2=John McNamara|author3=John Lindow|title=Medieval Folklore: A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hD4SAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-514771-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings|chapter=Chapter 11 |at=Section 6: "Death and the Dead"}}</ref> The word ''revenant'' is derived from the [[Old French]] word {{lang|fro|revenant}} {{gloss|returning}} (see also the related [[French language|French]] verb {{lang|fr|revenir}} {{gloss|to come back}}).

Revenants are part of the legend of various cultures, including [[Celtic mythology|Celtic]] and [[Norse mythology]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Dealing With The Dead: Mortality and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZMZKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA24|date=5 February 2018|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-35833-1|pages=24–}}</ref> and stories of supposed revenant visitations were documented by [[English historians in the Middle Ages]].<ref name="PulliamFonseca2016">{{cite book|author1=June Michele Pulliam|author2=Anthony J. Fonseca|title=Ghosts in Popular Culture and Legend|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RUfpDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA272|date=26 September 2016|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-4408-3491-2|pages=272–}}</ref>