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  2. Onryō - Wikipedia

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    Onryō are often depicted as wronged women, who are traumatized, envious, disappointed, bitter, or just infuriated by what happened during life and exact revenge in death. These kinds of ghosts appear extremely vengeful, ruthless, heartless, brutal, cruel, deranged, egotistical, selfish, bloodthirsty, and cold-hearted. [2]

  3. Vengeful ghost - Wikipedia

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    In mythology and folklore, a vengeful ghost or vengeful spirit is said to be the spirit of a dead person who returns from the afterlife to seek revenge for a cruel, unnatural or unjust death. In certain cultures where funeral and burial or cremation ceremonies are important, such vengeful spirits may also be considered as unhappy ghosts of ...

  4. Personifications of death - Wikipedia

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    Gustave Doré Death on the Pale Horse (1865) – The fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse. Death is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse portrayed in the Book of Revelation, in Revelation 6:7–8. [36] And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

  5. List of death deities - Wikipedia

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    A single religion/mythology may have death gods of more than one gender existing at the same time and they may be envisioned as a married couple ruling over the afterlife together, as with the Aztecs, Greeks, and Romans. In monotheistic religions, the one god governs both life and death (as well as everything else). However, in practice this ...

  6. Yūrei - Wikipedia

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    A mistress of the titular Genji who falls deeply in love with him, the lady Rokujō is an ambitious woman whose ambition is denied upon the death of her husband. The jealousy she repressed over Genji transformed her slowly into a demon, and then took shape as an ikiryō upon discovering that Genji's wife was pregnant.

  7. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    Usually referring to the death of a pet, especially if the owners are parents of young children e.g. "The dog was sent to a farm." Sewerslide To commit suicide Humorous 21st-century slang. Likely invented to circumvent internet censorship. Shade The state of death Euphemism

  8. Undead - Wikipedia

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    Most commonly, it is now taken to refer to supernatural beings which had at one point been alive and continue to display some aspects of life after death, but the usage is highly variable. [ 2 ] Reanimation or the creation of zombies through non-supernatural means has become a trope since at least the 19th century.

  9. Dies irae - Wikipedia

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    Centre panel from Memling's triptych Last Judgment (c. 1467–1471) " Dies irae" (Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈdi.es ˈi.re]; "the Day of Wrath") is a Latin sequence attributed to either Thomas of Celano of the Franciscans (1200–1265) [1] or to Latino Malabranca Orsini (d. 1294), lector at the Dominican studium at Santa Sabina, the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas ...