
Revenant of Anantis
The Anantis case is the most violent of William of Newburgh's four revenant reports. A jealous husband dies without confession, walks at night and spreads a sickness that depopulates the town. Two young men exhume the bloated body, wound it, tear out the heart and burn it on a pyre, after which the pestilence stops. With its blood-filled corpse and heart-burning, it reads like a vampire case written five hundred years before the word reached English; one scholar identifies Anantis with Annan in Dumfriesshire.123
- exhuming the body
- tearing out the heart
- burning the corpse
Wanneer het dit eerste verskyn?
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s
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- William of Newburgh, History, Book 5 - Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University)
- Elif Boyacıoğlu, 'The Revenant on the Threshold', Folklore 62 (2015)
- Revenant - Wikipedia
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