revenant

Even then there is a high chance the fire will reappear, like a smoking revenant, fed by hidden fuel buried in the invisible depths of the peat swamp.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

This reminded me, in Italian-American culture, of pastina — a grain that has deep, revenant importance throughout both Italy, America and many countries beyond that.

From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2024

Tulare Lake is not a phantom, but a revenant: that which returns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

“There is, incidentally, nothing odd in the revenant being a woman,” Rady said of the Polish case.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2022

Perhaps she’s a revenant, like the creature in Mr. Alexander Westing’s latest weekly serial “The Ghost Knocks Thrice.”

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

Remember that if you tire of vampires, you can always turn to the literature of werewolves, demons and revenants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The imagery conjures a supernatural patchwork of revenants and Superman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

In 1746, a Benedictine monk named Antoine Augustin Calmet published a popular treatise that sought, among other things, to distinguish real revenants from frauds.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

Opening with a substantial, critically astute introduction by Peter Bell, the volume collects for the first time Tynan’s scattered tales of revenants, curses and ancient mysteries.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2021

So tonight we sat and told our tales: Olakunde of Oyo, Pomp of marshy cunning-men and revenants, and me of Greece and Rome.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson