Ed, Do You Know What They Were Called?

They were known as revenants, literally meaning the return. They turn up in mediaeval sources in the twelfth century. One of them is a man who climbs out of his grave and then tries to get into bed with his wife. There are various stories of dogs barkingof smell, or miasma arriving for plague. What do you think ed was the go to cure for dealing with these rampaging night remnants? It's normally fire, isn't it? Yes, yes. So severing the limbs and decapitation were the main things that william newborough recommended in the twighth century.