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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.
Revenant [4] (Korean: 악귀) is a 2023 South Korean television series written by Kim Eun-hee and starring Kim Tae-ri, Oh Jung-se, and Hong Kyung. It aired from June 23 to July 29, 2023, on SBS TV 's Fridays and Saturdays at 22:00 ( KST ).
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 ...
In mythology and folklore, a vengeful ghost or vengeful spirit is said to be the spirit of a dead person who returns from the afterlife to seek revenge for a cruel, unnatural or unjust death. In certain cultures where funeral and burial or cremation ceremonies are important, such vengeful spirits may also be considered as unhappy ghosts of ...
The Revenant is a 2015 American epic western action drama film [5] directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu.The screenplay by Mark L. Smith and Iñárritu is based in part on Michael Punke's 2002 novel The Revenant, which describes frontiersman Hugh Glass's experiences in 1823, and which is based on the 1915 poem The Song of Hugh Glass.
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.