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Restless Dead

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General Reference

Divinity Atlas. "Restless Dead." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/mythicalcreature/restless-dead.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Restless Dead. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/mythicalcreature/restless-dead

BibTeX

@misc{divinityatlas-restless-dead,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Restless Dead},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/mythicalcreature/restless-dead},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The unquiet or improperly buried dead who wander rather than rest, drawn from the Roman lemures, placated in the household festival of the Lemuria. The category covers a general unsettled state after death rather than a specific grievance. Excludes vengeful ghosts, whose unrest has a named cause, and excludes ancestral dead, who are honored rather than feared.

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