0 someone who has returned, especially someone who returns to life after being dead:
The law could usefully be changed so that, when such revenant consents awake, they can be properly assessed in the light of contemporary circumstances.
If players can defeat the revenants haunting a totem, they can loot the items left behind by previous players.
Often the revenants are associated with the spreading of disease among the living.
It was first and foremost in times of starvation, when communities were struck with a series of misfortunes, that rumours about revenants began to flourish.
In different regions, animals can be revenants as lugats; also, living people during their sleep.
Cultural practices often arose that were intended to prevent a recently deceased loved one from turning into an undead revenant.
Almost every nation has associated blood drinking with some kind of revenant or demon, or in some cases a deity.
The sagas tell of drastic precautions being taken after a revenant had appeared.
