Editing Revenant (section)

===Abbot of Burton===

The English Abbot of [[Burton Abbey|Burton]] tells the story of two runaway peasants from about 1090 who died suddenly of unknown causes and were buried, but:

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the very same day in which they were interred they appeared at evening, while the sun was still up, carrying on their shoulders the wooden coffins in which they had been buried. The whole following night they walked through the paths and fields of the village, now in the shape of men carrying wooden coffins on their shoulders, now in the likeness of bears or dogs or other animals. They spoke to the other peasants, banging on the walls of their houses and shouting "Move quickly, move! Get going! Come!"
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The villagers became sick and started dying, but eventually the bodies of the revenants were exhumed, their heads cut off, and their hearts removed, which ended the spread of the sickness.<ref>{{citation|title=England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings |page=613}}</ref>