Revenant
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For other uses, see The Revenant (disambiguation).
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').
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Revenants are part of the legend of various cultures, including Celtic and Norse mythology,[8] and stories of supposed revenant visitations were documented by English historians in the Middle Ages.[9]