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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. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The word revenant is derived from the Old French word revenant ' returning ' (see also the related French verb revenir ' to come back ' ).
Gjenganger tries to claim a new victim for the sea, Thorvald Niss (1932) In Nordic folklore; Danish: genganger, Norwegian: gjenganger, Swedish: gengångare ("(a)gain-walker"), among more, is a term for a revenant, the spirit or ghost of a deceased from the grave, [1] meaning "someone which goes again", from the Scandinavian verb of "going again" (Swedish: gå igen) in the sense of a deceased ...
Stories of supposed revenant visitations were documented by English historians in the Middle Ages. Pages in category "Revenants" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
A wiedergänger rises from its coffin. Copy from a 16th–century incunabulum now in the Bavarian State Library of Munich. In German, the term Wiedergänger (German pronunciation: [ˈviːdɐˌɡɛŋɐ] ⓘ) is a term for a revenant and different ghost phenomena from different cultural areas, meaning "re-walker", or by extension, "one who walks again"; cognate to Scandinavian gjenganger ("again ...
The churel is typically described as "the ghost of an unpurified living thing", but because she is often said to latch on to trees, she is also called a tree-spirit. [1] According to some legends, a woman who dies very cruely will come back as a revenant churel for revenge, particularly targeting the males in her family.
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Raróg – Whirlwind spirit; Raven Mocker – Life-draining spirit; Raven Spirit (Native American, Norse, and Siberian) – Trickster spirit; Ratatoskr – Squirrel spirit; Raystown Ray (American Folklore) – Possible plesiosaur or serpent; Redcap – Evil, ugly humanoid; Re’em – Gigantic land animal
The Revenant, published in various forms from 2001 to 2008 The Revenant (novel) , a 2002 novel by Michael Punke, basis for the 2015 film "The Revenant", a 2006 short story by Lucy Sussex