Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The undead are beings in mythology, legend, or fiction that are deceased but behave as if they were alive. A common example of an undead being is a corpse reanimated by supernatural forces, by the application of either the deceased's own life force or that of a supernatural being (such as a demon, or other evil spirit).
The draugr are depicted as blue-black animated corpses wielding many magical abilities. In the 2022 movie The Northman, Amleth enters a burial mound, in search of a magical sword named "Draugr". Amleth encounters an undead Mound Dweller inside the grave chamber, which he has to fight to obtain the blade.
Revenants feature prominently in tabletop games and video games as either resurrected beings, as forms of the undead or as general character class archetypes. Most notable games include Doom, Dungeons and Dragons, Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare, Phasmophobia, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Guild Wars 2 and the eponymous Revenant.
In Philippine mythology, a Bal-Bal is an undead monster that steals corpses whether it is in a funeral or grave and feeds on them. It has a strong sense of smell for dead human bodies. It also has claws and teeth sharp enough to rip the clothing of the dead. Since it eats nothing but corpses, it has a foul breath.
The corpses would be arranged upright in single file and be tied to long bamboo rods on the sides, while two men (one at the front and one at the back) would carry the ends of the rods on their shoulders and walk. When the bamboo flexed up and down, the corpses appeared to be "hopping" in unison when viewed from a distance away. [17] [18] [19]
"Cool Air", "In the Vault" and "The Outsider" all deal with the undead, but Lovecraft's "Herbert West–Reanimator" (1921) "helped define zombies in popular culture". [54] This series of short stories featured Herbert West, a mad scientist, who attempts to revive human corpses, with mixed results. Notably, the resurrected dead are ...
Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!
Related to modern German leiche or modern Dutch lijk, both meaning 'corpse') is a type of undead creature. Various works of fantasy fiction, such as Clark Ashton Smith 's " The Empire of the Necromancers " ( 1932 ), had used lich as a general term for any corpse, animated or inanimate, before the term's specific use in fantasy role-playing games.