Hereford who revived from the dead and wandered the streets of his village at night calling out the names of those who would die of sickness within three days. The response by bishop Gilbert Foliot was "Dig up the body and cut off the head with a spade, sprinkle it with holy water and re-inter it". See also Dybbuk Gjenganger Ghost Jiangshi Lugat Nachzehrer Nav (Slavic folklore) Poltergeist Pocong Skeleton (undead) Vampire Vampire burial Wiedergänger Zombie Notes References Townsend, Dorian Aleksandra, From Upyr' to Vampire: The Slavic Vampire Myth in Russian Literature, Ph.D. Dissertation, School of German and Russian Studies, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, May 2011. Walter Map, De nugis curialium. William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum (History of English Affairs), full text online. Further reading Caciola, Nancy Mandeville. "Revenants, Resurrection, and Burnt Sacrifice." In Afterlives: The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages, 113–56. Cornell University Press, 2016. www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt18kr5t1.11. External links Corporeal undead Medieval European legendary creatures Undead Zombies de:Wiedergänger es:Aparecido