Revenants (folklore)

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)
==Biography ==
===Heroic Side===
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
==Gallery==
File:6FF6530A-FCC0-491B-A4FF-529E9F9169CC.webp|medieval revenants
File:AA52392B-1D70-42A0-9882-49D2FEDD9863.webp|medieval revenants
File:Revenant Awakens.webp|Revenant Awakens
File:Danse Macabre.webp|Danse Macabre
File:Revenant Spirit.webp|16th century Spanish Revenant
==External Links==
*Revenants in Villains Wiki
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