Revenants are vengeful spirits, visible ghosts, or living corpses that was believed to return from the grave with a vengeance. The belief in the apparitions is below the universal rituals to propitiate the dead, to keep them in their place. Although later legend and folklore depict revenants returning for a specific purpose (for example, getting revenge on the deceased's murderer)
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Revenants are said to return to the living realm to take revenge on those who wronged them in their previous life. In a typical myth, only wicked or evil people tend to turn into revenants. Rarely, however, there were cases where a particularly strong willed individual had died before fulfilling an important task or a promise and would return as a revenant to complete what was left unfinished.
Revenants in Pop Culture[]
- Spawn from Spawn
- Eric Draven from The Crow
- Scorpion from Mortal Kombat franchise
- Intelligent Undead from Dwarf Fortress
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External Links[]
- Revenants in Villains Wiki
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