Revenant
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In the Middle Ages, revenants were legendary animated corpses which rose from the grave to haunt the living. Many stories were documented by English historians in the Middle Ages, as exemplified by William of Newburgh who wrote in the 1190s "one would not easily believe that corpses come out of their graves and wander around, animated by I don't know what spirit, to terrorize or harm the living, unless there were many cases in our times, supported by ample testimony". Stories of revenants were very personal, always about a specific individual who had recently died (unlike the anonymous zombie depicted in modern popular culture, such as Night of the Living Dead), and had a number of common features.
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