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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[@Texanprime]

Please do Texas revolution please extra history

[@wolfcat1998]

@@Texanprime would that be considered history or prophecy?

[@mr.miyagi881]

Hey could you guys do an episode on Jack the Ripper

[@cameronjohnson9361]

Real looks slightly different than expected

[@WereRea3807]

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.

[@electricorcagaming]

"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

[@scottanos9981]

The "myths" tell so much about a nation's cultural history. It is history in its own right!

[@Ahrpigi]

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.

[@MultiTrollface999]

@@Ahrpigi myth can be used to EXPLAIN historical events tho, even if they're objectively false today

[@Ahrpigi]

@@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.

[@linuxstreamer8910]

it is still there but part of the intro's background

[@willichtenstein7071]

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.

[@ellisartwist]

Did villages even have curfews in Ye Olden Tymes?

[@GideonTyree]

@@ellisartwist Not villages, but cities often did.

[@BrenGamerYT]

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

[@jaymartin8273]

Great, now I want to see a werewolf/vampire team up against a group of revenants :=)

[@Ahrpigi]

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.

[@yamiyomizuki]

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.

[@silverhawkscape2677]

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.

[@StonedtotheBones13]

My thoughts exactly. There's so many reasons someone might appear dead when your only way to check is "are they breathing?"

[@michaelbarnes5223]

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.

[@iapetusmccool]

That would have required him to go back to his grave and re-bury himself .

[@ecurewitz]

Worst. Day. Ever.

[@krankarvolund7771]

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 ^^'

[@germanomagnone]

7:58 Well, not even a "narrative collision" was better.

[@josephwatkins1190]

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!"

[@Derpinator01]

"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."

[@lordbelou7279]

I saw the grand return of Extra Mythology, and I couldn't do anything but watch.

[@alejandroazurdia2937]

Fr

[@thomassaxon8254]

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.

[@carlpult5235]

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.

[@adrianbourceanu9145]

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.

[@mindwipe8788]

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.

[@Nerdnumberone]

Having them be skilled warriors makes it more difficult for a couple of young men to kill them with shovels.

[@Oxtocoatl13]

This version where it's an angry troublemaker with nebulous motives is so much better.

[@lancerguy3667]

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.

[@paulchapman8023]

It does remind me a bit of the Miller’s Tale. Not enough literal butt-kissing or hot pokers though.

[@Nyghtking]

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.

[@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447]

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)

[@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing]

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.

[@HICKSKE]

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.

[@mitwhitgaming7722]

My favorite strategy to use against Revenants is to hop in the passenger seat and melee the driver... ... oh, wait, wrong kind of Revenant...

[@RagonXE]

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

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Extra Mythology will always be fascinating and enterteining! Keep up the good work guys!

[@nelleneulmer5385]

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.😢

[@Ultimate_Hater75]

I like how the unfaithful wife never came up ever again and probably got away with it.

[@jankobehring4445]

Please say the thing out loud again with "myths are not stories"... It gives me shivers everytime

[@Ryu_D]

"Wear a mask, wash your hands, and HIT THE THING WITH A FREAKING CAR!" XD

[@Tabbasco2012]

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.

[@Nightcore-336]

It's nice to see that Extra mythology is back and I'm looking forward for the new episodes😆

[@peytonreed937]

Glad to see it back. May the myths continue

[@multentlava]

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

[@veefrog]

The one feature I remember about revenants is that they have glowing blue eyes, making them experts at cosplaying as Sans.

[@Nasafalkas1]

Nice "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" reference 🙂

[@finnmchugh99]

I'm relieved you're still doing Extra Mythology... Its, one of my fave series here XD

[@AndGoatz04]

"what brought him back?" *_PURE. FUCKING. SPITE._*

[@cantabitvidentis5569]

I was waiting for this one to come back!

[@burntimeUK]

congrats on getting the pronunciation of Alnwick close enough that a local wouldn't roll their eyes at you ;)

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

I was looking to see if someone would say this. Plenty of Brits get it wrong! This is a classy channel :)

[@stanj85]

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.

[@storyspren]

5:47 I seem to remember that book having less undeath, maybe should do a reread lol

[@moonstruck8245]

"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!"

[@animefallenangel]

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!

[@phill2065]

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 :))

[@kaledmarrero1011]

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.

[@Babbleplay]

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.

[@mutantmaster1]

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

[@krosanreaper]

I love revenants in DnD, they have great potential for story telling.

[@rurallemas]

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

[@TheCreepypro]

so nice to have mythology back

[@parkerthanyou]

Can start your videos by telling the "Miths are not stories that are not true.."? That intro was so good to hear everytime

[@NL-ws5fv]

So glad to see this back up. I was afraid this series was never going to come back.

[@Caspar67]

So happy Extra Mythology is back ^^

[@ilovemuslimfood666]

The brothers at 6:41: “Hold up. Wait a minute! Something ain’t right!” ✋

[@AnimeAngel88]

Thank you for bringing this back! I've been wanting new myths for ages!

[@artstsym]

Beating the crap out of someone and then making up a fantastic creature to explain it the next day is peak British.

[@conormccann2850]

Extra Mythology is back! I am so happy!

[@samsolitaryroll]

Extra Mythology is back!!!! Thank you for bringing it back!

[@lillamacsai7699]

So Extra Mithology met the Winchester brothers. Nice ❤😂

[@-jeff-]

"Trevinant"...priceless 🤣

[@taidepods]

"what would you do if you see a revenant ??" FLAMETHROWER

[@dersuddeutschesumpf5444]

Keep bringing this show back please

[@jasonschriver5949]

Loved this series! So glad to see more of it!

[@CSLucasEpic]

Would you consider doing a video on the Mikilo myth?

[@Nasafalkas1]

Good advice at the end!

[@leahbairos9680]

Why is this literally Dio though? lol Glad to see Extra Mythology come back. I love this series!!

[@fireline4765]

I loved that little bit at the end🤣

[@Voshed518]

I just think they where bad at determine if someone was dead and then they woke up from the grave and managed to somehow get out and scare people like crazy

[@NanoElite666]

I _think_ I see what you did there with that line about a curious case of dogs in the nighttime. Maybe. I dunno, that very specific phrase made my brain go "Wait, that sounds familiar for some reason..." and I think it was a book that came up as a possible reading choice in high school English class. Maybe.

[@alvinsaat2943]

I noticed you really stepped it up with the moving animations recently. Good stuff 👍

[@ArkenTheAmerikan]

Trevor the Revenant... so... the Trevenant. I am not sorry.

[@dawsonlaughren730]

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?

[@KarlStevans-kg5tb]

6:08 is the solution for everything

[@rakatika]

Yes I love this series! Love the theme song vocals. This episode was hilarious.

[@MovieFan1912]

Will there be any Leprechaun myths covered for St. Patrick’s Day? Just curious.

[@smexy_man]

Moral of the story. If something dead gets back up. BURN IT WITH FIRE!

[@abcdef27669]

Extra Mythology is back! Repeat, Extra Mythology is back! Time to learn more, fellow comrades!

[@brutusmagnuson315]

Missed the chance to name him “Trev the Rev”

[@shaider1982]

Hope Extra Histoty can collab with Dr. Emily Zarka (Monstrum) with these myth stories.

[@PaganPGK]

03:54 It was Walpole

[@kbrock9146]

Nice little "Supernatural" nod. 😂

[@ohNojames]

I have always wondered what dude looked like.

[@4everpokemonrulez3]

It’s back baby!!!

[@tns6862]

What i thought this episode is: Earliest description of Zombies, risen from the dead What this episode was: Sam & Dean, Origins of Supernatural

[@wolfismyname13]

Love the random Curious incident of the Dog reference!

[@typacsk]

William of Newburg: the original Church Lady

[@toastrmonky8593]

Thanks Extra History, If anything ever scares me at night I will be sure to take your advice and hit it with my car

[@Tabbasco2012]

Make sure to tell the judge who gave you those instructions

[@777JamesC]

Extra Mythology is my favorite

[@derekbates4316]

Oh, so Jason from Friday the 13th must be a revenant and not a zombie; that makes sense!

[@novo121]

Do some south slavic mythology

[@Nightcore-336]

That would be interesting

[@fiqricool]

Please keep extra mythology content coming

[@charlesdeleo4608]

Woo-hoo!!! Extra Mythology is back!!!

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in. Hope everyone is having a great day!

[@E11A2irl]

Engage in glorious melee combat!

[@bobalinx8762]

It’s back!

[@allaniadall9686]

Finally! An Extra Mythology story!

[@endplanets]

Dig how 'Wife' wore her head scarf while cheating. Don't want to be immodest.

[@SugarRimmedglass]

I am so happy to watch Extra Mythology again.!

[@LamanKnight]

Heh heh heh... an undead who just beats you up. "I will come back from the dead to punch your face... IN THE FACE!" I would suggest this should be the basis for a Ghost/Fighting type Pokemon, but... isn't that kind of what Annihilape's deal is? (I haven't played the Generation 9 Pokemon games, so I wouldn't really know.)

[@tobiahrowswell2928]

What would be a good source to read the original myth from William of Newburgh? I am actually planning to write a research paper on this subject 😅

[@jorgeacamacho1764]

Can you do extra-mythology about chuttlu mythos

[@oblivion6891]

Medieval sam and dean

[@armelior4610]

Sounds like the basis is mean drunks picking fights at night and passing out in cemetaries :D Lovely to see extra mythology make a comeback !

[@jordanloux3883]

Or cases of people being buried while they were still alive. At least in these cases the graves used to be much shallower

[@ryan1000011]

A dude stumbling around at night smelling of death that punches random people in Northumbria ........ yeah that's just a drunk dude

[@billdehappy1]

yay its back

[@FrogAndAHat]

Whatever you do, do not let Mike Tyson become revenant