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In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or non-human animal that is believed by some people to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely, from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes to realistic, lifelike forms.
Iele, feminine mythical creatures; Moroi, a type of vampire or ghost; Muma Pădurii, an ugly and mean old woman living in the forest; Pricolici, similar to Strigoi, but for worse souls; Samca, an evil spirit, said to curse children and pregnant women with illness
The Shade of Tiresias Appearing to Odysseus during the Sacrifice (c. 1780–85), painting by Johann Heinrich Füssli, showing a scene from Book Ten of the Odyssey. In poetry and literature, a shade (translating Greek σκιά, [1] Latin umbra [2]) is the spirit or ghost of a dead person, residing in the underworld.
The Ghost of Barbara Radziwiłł by Wojciech Gerson. Ghosts are a common form of the undead. Ghosts are a common form of the undead. The undead are beings in mythology, legend, or fiction that are deceased but behave as if they were alive.
Chalkydri – heavenly creatures of the Sun; Chamrosh (Persian mythology) – body of a dog, head & wings of a bird; Cinnamon bird – greek myth of an arabian bird that builds nests out of cinnamon; Devil Bird (Sri Lankan) – shrieks predicting death; Gagana – a miraculous bird with an iron beak and copper claws
9. Chimera. Origin: Greek The mythological Chimera is a terrifying creature that features a fire-breathing lion’s head attached to a goat’s body, ending in a serpent tail. There are varying ...
Sphinx – A creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human. Spriggan – A grotesquely ugly mischievous fairy or forest spirit from Cornish folklore. Sprite – Fairy, ghost, or elf-like creatures. Struthopodes – Humanoids whose males had enormous feet, but whose females had tiny feet; Succubus, incubus – (Jewish) Seductive demons.
To ensure thorough destruction the creature's head is often removed, sometimes placed by the corpse's buttocks, or sometimes the corpse is burned instead (see Vampire#Methods_of_destruction). In the folklore and ghost stories of Eastern Scandinavia, Finnish "dead-child beings" are described as revenants animated by restless spirits that could ...