Revenants - Europe's Punchiest Undead - Scottish - Extra Mythology
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The Revenant is a Scottish Myth that tells of a scorned and dreadful man that wanders the night with a pack of dogs. His flesh is rotting and his stench is so dreadful that it carries the plague. He prowls the midnight streets for those he may bludgeon and then crawls back to his grave by morning.
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Please do Texas revolution please extra history
@@Texanprime would that be considered history or prophecy?
Hey could you guys do an episode on Jack the Ripper
Real looks slightly different than expected
That Ragu is what I'm having for dinner actually. The one thing that held me off of Hello Fresh was the fact I have a tiny house kitchen with no space.
"Myths are not stories that are untrue but rather tales that don't fit neatly into the historical record which serve as a foundation to a culture" this quotation which comes from older extra mythology videos is what made me solidly interested in mythology so thank you so much so much for bringing this series back
The "myths" tell so much about a nation's cultural history. It is history in its own right!
I take umbridge with it because myths by definition aren't true. They have important cultural and historical significance, but they aren't themselves historical events.
@@Ahrpigi myth can be used to EXPLAIN historical events tho, even if they're objectively false today
@@MultiTrollface999 yes, certainly. 🙂 What I don't like is that the wording (to me, at least) feels like the implication is that the stories *are* true. I'm probably just overthinking it.
it is still there but part of the intro's background
Vampire: feeds on the life of others and turns them into selfish parasites
Werewolf: twists civilized folk into violent and opportunistic forces of nature
Revenant: decks you
Great, now I want to see a werewolf/vampire team up against a group of revenants :=)
Plague was common in medieval times. Burying people alive was a major fear. I'd also say that guards telling people that if they break curfew then they'll get beat up by, what's totally not a guard.
Did villages even have curfews in Ye Olden Tymes?
@@ellisartwist Not villages, but cities often did.
So basically: dude got knocked unconscious, woke up and was pissed people had tried to bury him, then got absolutely devastated by two guys with shovels and fire.
Dang. Poor Trevor.
That would have required him to go back to his grave and re-bury himself .
Worst. Day. Ever.
I mean, if it was just one time, and then he was beaten up by the town people, I'd get it.
But if he was really buried alive, would he go back to his grave night after night? That doesn't seem plausible ^^'
7:58 Well, not even a "narrative collision" was better.
Prime example of a myth that we can apply modern reason to reverse engineer and see how it would have started. Someone gets sick or injured and is buried alive in a shallow grave, wakes up and tries to stumble home before finally succumbing. Boom, instant undead myth.
the danger of this type of conjecture is that people take it seriously. it's all well and good to say that this MIGHT be how the story started, but we can't know that's how it DID start.
That's one possibility but the thing with these stories and the various interations they likely receive over the years is that we likely don't know the actual origin of the Myth.
My thoughts exactly. There's so many reasons someone might appear dead when your only way to check is "are they breathing?"
I can really appreciate the reaction of the brothers. literary stories often have characters like this just refrain from doing anything and later taunt them for ... not chopping up a corpse. This makes them feel less like characters in a story someone invented and more like Pen and paper players who are not going to split up during a horror scenario.
Satan, dealing with Trevor's whining: Screw it, send him back up.
"Thomas, did you have a fight with one of the king's guards?"
"No, uh, Trevor did this to me."
"...Trevor's dead."
"Yeah, it was so strange, but I wouldn't do something that would have me executed."
I love that whole bit of them looking on the corpse and questioning if any of it was true as they'd never seen him walk around at night, then shrugging and saying "well we already came this far!"
I like the dnd 5e revenant; a person, who's murdered and wronged so badly, that their rage and need for revenge enables their spirit *to claw their way back from the afterlife* to hunt those who wronged them.
For those who caused a revenant to rise, there is no escape; a revenant knows where they are at all times. It's body can regenerate like that of a zombie or vampire. And even if you manage to destroy the body? It will rise again, taking a new corspe as its vessel. Oh, but don't worry, the target will always recognize who, and what, the revenant is no matter what.
This isn't to say that revenants are without weaknesses; they have a time limit. One year. One year to avenge themselves. This also comes at a cost; they cannot be resurrected, nor become a revenant again.
I just love them, as the perfect revenge plot npc; an innocent who is betrayed, tortured, tormented, then finally murdered dragging themselves back to the world of the living to obtain their vengeance. But their target, some important figure (crime boss, political leader, etc), has so many more resources that they need help.. and they approach thisnparty of adventurers
I gotta admit, this is a pretty awesome zombie.
SO happy to see Extra Mythology come back!! Such a good series!
I wonder if you guys will find more material to possibly see Extra Sci-fi come back? ^^
Keep up the amazing work!! :D
We would love for Extra Sci-fi to come back! We're crossing our fingers too.
Facts extra sci-fi was so great
@@extrahistory I have an interesting topic for the new "Extra Sci-fi" to propose to you, which perhaps you will like. it would be "the biological truthfulness of the aliens in the films" that is how much an alien in a film could be "biologically realistic". I hope you will be interested.
@@extrahistory Stll waiting for episode about Persian heroes ROstam & Esfandiar
@@extrahistory you guys make the choices
I saw the grand return of Extra Mythology, and I couldn't do anything but watch.
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I wrote a paper in my masters for medieval history that looked at this story, and the evolution of the concept of the undead/unliving and what they were perceived to be and to cause.
It was a really interesting look from roughly the 8th century to the 12th.
Other traditions argue that the reason the Revenant doesn't kill random people is that it only searches for the one(s) that murdered it.
I thought that that came from D&D
Just to add a little more to this, the 'Revenant' is a generic name for a bunch of undead creatures that rise from their graves to prey on the living, scattered throughout Europe (moroi, strigoi, strigon, wampyr, opyr, upor, upir, lepir, vukodlak, vrikolakas, etc.) While your story is from the middle ages, belief in such creatures is still a current thing throughout many rural areas in Eastern and Centeal Europe. In fact, the mythology behind modern vampires began when Austro-Hungarian authorities first witnessed Serbian peasants doing the exact sort of ritual you described in this video: you dig up the body, remove the heart, then you burn the body (it is believed that the revenant body with its heart still attached does not burn), then you take the ash and prepare a drink from it that you give to the dead man's relatives.
What you missed were the reasons why somebody becomes a revenant/moroi/strigoi/vampire, etc., which I don't fault you for, since they are pretty long and dull. They can be separated into three: causes from your birth (being born with the placenta on your head, being born the seventh son in a family, being an illegitimate child or the child of a witch), causes from your life (being unfaithful, impious, excommunicated, dying without the last sacraments performed) and causes from after you die (a chicken, cat or mouse passes by your coffin, the rain hits your coffin, you are buried in unsanctified ground), so the people who were supposed to bury you did not do it properly. In all these cases, you can return from the dead to torment your community and bring about death and disease.
What you explained very well, however, is that this sort of belief served to explain why certain kind of nefarious events (like a plague, for example) could happen to a community. Rene Girard talked about it being a manifestation of "collective murder", which is when a community rails up against a perceived threat or enemy and acts a ritual of exorcisation/elimination/ostracization etc. upon it. The people who performed these exorcization of the dead rituals, who dug up corpses, did it believing full well that what they did was not only ok, but actually useful and necessary in the symbolic economy of the universe. And there's more to say here, because the interest for revenants only entered the public conscience of Western Europe after the witch trials had ended, when the world needed a new enemy to project its anxieties on.
I like to think that half of these stories are just people who got prematurely buried clawing their way back out and back into the warmth of a house only to get the last vestiges of life beat out of them
What's interesting about these undead stories is that the corpse specifically moaned. Funny enough, dead corpse can actually make moaning sounds when gas escapes the body.
Leave it to medieval England to explain away a plague by saying an impious man got cucked so hard he transcended death. I can't put my finger on exactly why... but that feels so quintiessential of that era.
It does remind me a bit of the Miller’s Tale. Not enough literal butt-kissing or hot pokers though.
My favorite strategy to use against Revenants is to hop in the passenger seat and melee the driver...
... oh, wait, wrong kind of Revenant...
this is pretty much the basis for the modern zombie! I'm so excited! (yes, i know that the name 'zombie' comes from the voodoo religion, but modern zombies are far more similar to revenants than to voodoo zombies)
I prefer what they did with revenents in D&D, i'm only familiar with the 5e version, but it basically does like this:
In order to get a revenent you had to have messed up big time, revenents are created from the rage of a deceased person literally willing themselves back to life as an undead, and this only happens if you've done something particularly traumatic to them or caused them extreme amounts of suffering.
Revenents aren't weak and for the next year they will relentlessly seek out those who wronged them, they have inherent knowledge of the location of their targets, and if you ever successfully kill it it can possess another corpse to use as it's new body.
No matter the body a revenent has it's stats are always the same, so if, say, a child were to raise as a revenent they would have the stats of a fully grown man, and since revenents are powered by rage and hate they'll destroy anything in their way to obtain vengeance, even if they have to go through people who don't deserve it to get to their target.
Many modern takes on revenants usually involve them being undead warriors/ Vikings warriors that either are cursed or have their spirits linger on after death guarding their tombs or treasure hoards.
Having them be skilled warriors makes it more difficult for a couple of young men to kill them with shovels.
This version where it's an angry troublemaker with nebulous motives is so much better.
I'm genuinely fascinated by how similar the start of this is to the Irish tale of Abartach. Same manner of death, just a more gross way of walking the Earth again. I'd definitely take being a vampire king over this.
Fun video! Please also mention sneeze and cough etiquette, avoiding touching your face, and staying home if you have a temperature along with hand washing in your recommendation. These "non pharmaceutical interventions" (CDC term) are little things that we can do that easily turn into habits that make a big difference disease mitigation.
I feel like a shallow burial is just how people parked an obnoxious drunk for the night back then.
Which would explain the plethora of Irish undead folklore from Banshees to the Fear Gorta.
I miss when you would verbally say that “myths are not stories that are untrue” opener, followed by the campfire beginning of the tale. It added so much drama to the story and drew you in. I may not be a patron on Patreon but please bring that back.😢
3:38 - I would _totally_ buy a shirt that had this design on it: Frankenstein's monster being zapped alive with a "five more minutes..." speech bubble
5:46 - _fantastic_ reference
"Wear a mask, wash your hands, and HIT THE THING WITH A FREAKING CAR!" XD
I got past step 3 and now the police would like to speak with. Something about a dead homeless man found run over by a car.
Extra Mythology will always be fascinating and enterteining! Keep up the good work guys!
I like how the unfaithful wife never came up ever again and probably got away with it.
Please say the thing out loud again with "myths are not stories"... It gives me shivers everytime
It's nice to see that Extra mythology is back and I'm looking forward for the new episodes😆
5:45 i understood that reference the curious incident of the dog in the night time i have two copies on my shelf for some reason
congrats on getting the pronunciation of Alnwick close enough that a local wouldn't roll their eyes at you ;)
I was looking to see if someone would say this. Plenty of Brits get it wrong! This is a classy channel :)
Nice "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" reference 🙂
I have waited so long for this. It's 3am and for once I'm loving it
The one feature I remember about revenants is that they have glowing blue eyes, making them experts at cosplaying as Sans.
Glad to see it back.
May the myths continue
I'm relieved you're still doing Extra Mythology... Its, one of my fave series here XD
I was waiting for this one to come back!
Imagine if walking dead were about a bunch of undead people that just got up and beat people up… Rick Grimes would be arresting people left, front and center for battery.
Pretty sure “The Trevornent” movie would not have been as high grossing as the one with the bear 🐻
"Lookout! It's the evil undead horror, come from the grave for revenge!"
"Oh no! Is he going to eat our brains?!"
"No!"
"Is he going to tear us limb from limb?"
"Nope."
"Is he...going to drain our blood? Tear our hearts from our chest? Infect us to turn us into undead too?"
"No, no and no."
"...what does he do then?"
"He'll give you a purple nurple!"
YAY! Even though I love "So you haven't read...", I've been missing Extra Mythology so much. Thank you for bringing out and bringing back awesome content!
Ahhhh, so glad to have Extra Mythology back and that awesome end credits music.
I love revenants in DnD, they have great potential for story telling.
"what brought him back?"
*_PURE. FUCKING. SPITE._*
'how do we deal with the walking corpse?' 'idk, chop it up and burn it?' Like if your plan to fight dracula was to burn down his castle during the day. Not a terrible plan, all things considered.
Oh, how I have MISSED Extra Mythology! I’m so glad you’re bringing it back! Huzzah!
So glad this series is back! Will y’all ever make a video on the Mothman?
I must say, you did a pretty good job of pronouncing Alnwick for someone who isn't local, better than most attempts I've heard from other people from in the UK
The only thing that walks around at night, that knocks on doors, wails and beats you if they find you in my area is drunk students :))
That myth does share a name with The Revenant from the Doom series. The one from Doom does punch like in the myth, but he shoots missiles and sometimes homing missiles, which is a ranged attack.
D&D has it's own revenants, as well. No actual spellcaster magic or necromancy involved; if someone is betrayed and murdered, the victim animates, fully self aware and conscious, with its one purpose in life is to kill their killer/killers, and an innate mental GPS that always tells it where he/she/they are.
so nice to have mythology back
Finally! It's been (litterly) years! I am so happy :D
Nice to have an explanation for one of the most PTSD-inducing enemies in Elden Ring. Screw you From Software, and Medieval Times in general.
5:47 I seem to remember that book having less undeath, maybe should do a reread lol
So Extra Mithology met the Winchester brothers. Nice ❤😂
So happy Extra Mythology is back ^^
So glad to see this back up. I was afraid this series was never going to come back.
The brothers at 6:41: “Hold up. Wait a minute! Something ain’t right!” ✋
Can start your videos by telling the "Miths are not stories that are not true.."? That intro was so good to hear everytime
Beating the crap out of someone and then making up a fantastic creature to explain it the next day is peak British.
"Trevinant"...priceless 🤣
Thank you for bringing this back! I've been wanting new myths for ages!
7:39 Maybee!
When I heard The Revenant in this title, I thought of the Leonardo di Caprio film at first, but this is pretty good too.
Extra Mythology is back! I am so happy!
The amount of pure joy I feel is indescribable right now. 😊😊😊
Loved this series! So glad to see more of it!
"what would you do if you see a revenant ??" FLAMETHROWER
I love zombies with simple solutions. No headshots, no magic cures, no holy incantations, just strap 2 chainsaws to a kayak paddle and go nuts.
Two brothers, digging up a body and then setting it on fire...Sam and Dean Winchester is that you?
I loved that little bit at the end🤣
Keep bringing this show back please
I want a story where a culture's idiom for overkill is, Shooting a shark at the moon.
Advisor: General this is an absurd plan and a total waste of resources! You are shooting a shark at the moon!
General: What the hell are you talking about?
From a logical standpoint, Trevor might not have actually died, but sustained enough damage he went into a coma, and seeing as medicine in a villiage was often basic, they could have buried him alive easily.
His stench could be from gangrene, and the discoloration could be from A) the full body bruise he got from falling through a roof, B) bilirubin build up if he damaged his liver, or C) hypoxia and hypothermia if he didn't get enough air underground and it was cold out.
He could also have brain damage such that words became meaningless, but reflexes like walking, punching, and mental maps were still accessible, leaving you with:
a disfigured, discolored man who still knows what people are, doesn't know what they're saying, but knows how to walk over and punch a person, because reasons
Extra Mythology is back!!!!
Thank you for bringing it back!
I've been looking forward to this
-Count Dooku after waiting many months for a new extra mythology episode
Why is this literally Dio though? lol Glad to see Extra Mythology come back. I love this series!!
Shooting a shark out of a cannon at the moon was an alternate ending for Jaws The Revenge. Michael Cain's character would have been the one to light the fuse.
3:22 He became a pokemon
So glad to see extra mythology return. Thank you!
Good advice at the end!
I noticed you really stepped it up with the moving animations recently. Good stuff 👍
This is why I never leave home without the heavy flamer
Yes I love this series! Love the theme song vocals. This episode was hilarious.
Rumours still fly in small communities like isolated villages, students dorms or fashion shops.
People still swear something is real because they had seen it for themselves, that is, a friend of a friend...
And back in the day people didn't have cameras or other recording media, also the boredom must have been too much at times so a good, decent haunt was always great I mean horrifying.
Thanks Extra History, If anything ever scares me at night I will be sure to take your advice and hit it with my car
Make sure to tell the judge who gave you those instructions
For a second there I thought this was about that leonardo decaprio movie lol
Always nice to see an undead whose weakness is "gross bodily destruction".
Would you consider doing a video on the Mikilo myth?
Undead boxers sounds like a cool HBO show.
Extra Mythology is my favorite
Extra Mythology is back! Repeat, Extra Mythology is back! Time to learn more, fellow comrades!
PANR has tuned in.
Hope everyone is having a great day!
Revenant's give noogies and run away.
Officially history's first bully.
Love the random Curious incident of the Dog reference!
Do some south slavic mythology
That would be interesting