Actually, revenants were a good deal more intelligent than zombies in most of the legends regarding them being closer to vampires that ate flesh than zombies.  Which makes them different from ghouls, who mostly feasted on the dead for preference…

Really, cool. Do you have any other links for revenants? I had never heard of them until I was looking up some stuff about zombies. Kinda odd that they haven’t been brought up much in popular culture (movies especialy)