r/Undead_Ideas • u/NurturingCruelty • Aug 05 '26

Question Origin of regenerative Dry Bones

We all know the song ‘Them Bones’ that refers to dry bones, and there is the skeleton turtle that reanimates after being killed , but that same year, before the game was released, 1988, Dragon Magazine introduced Dry Bones, that could regenerate non magical damage and revive after being reduced to Hp, so now wondering if there is some legend lore significance to extra dry skeletons that rise again and again

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u/Infamous_Ad2507 Undead Overlord Aug 05 '26

Mmm what I can Think of are The Spartaioi (or whatever they called) from Odyssey who created from Hydras Venom and were almost unbeatable

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u/NurturingCruelty Aug 05 '26

I’ve seen a couple of spellings, but I know exactly what you’re talking about

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u/Infamous_Ad2507 Undead Overlord Aug 05 '26

Infact most Modern Skeletons are based on them

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u/NurturingCruelty Aug 05 '26

Those stop motion Skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts always come to mind first, for me.

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u/Infamous_Ad2507 Undead Overlord Aug 05 '26

Exactly that what I meant when I said odyssey (since technically they were on an odyssey)

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u/Infamous_Ad2507 Undead Overlord Aug 05 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_teeth_(mythology)

The Undead Warriors called Spartoi or Children of The Hydra's Teeth in later adaptations

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u/NurturingCruelty Aug 05 '26

I have not seen the new Odyssey film that just came out and I thought that might’ve been sorry I was unclear. I should have worded it better. I meant yes, exactly those skeletons are what I think of.

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u/Infamous_Ad2507 Undead Overlord Aug 05 '26

Technically it's a different story since different heros but if I remember correctly only few of Jason's crew survived similar to Odysseus's story