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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.
Procession of the dead is a motif present in the folkloric traditions around the world. It mostly refers to a march of ghosts , phantoms or souls , sometimes commanded by a creature related to the Otherworld , the Underworld or the Afterlife .
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.
Anubis, guardian of the dead, [1] mummification, and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion; Aqen, a rarely mentioned deity in the Book of the Dead; Assessors of Maat, charged with judging the souls of the dead in the afterlife; Duamutef, one of the four sons of Horus; Hapi, one of the four sons of Horus; Imset, one of the four sons of Horus
The Lemuralia or Lemuria was an annual event in the religion of ancient Rome, during which the Romans performed rites to exorcise any malevolent and fearful ghosts of the restless dead from their homes.
Rivers are a fundamental part of the topography of the underworld and are found in the earliest source materials: [12] In Homer's Iliad, the "ghost" of Patroclus makes specific mention of gates and a river (unnamed) in Hades; [13] in Homer's Odyssey, the "ghost" of Odysseus's mother, Anticlea, describes there being many "great rivers and appalling streams", and reference is made to at least ...
Grateful dead (or grateful ghost) is both a motif and a group of related folktales present in many cultures throughout the world. The most common story involves a traveler who encounters a corpse of someone who never received a proper burial , typically stemming from an unpaid debt.
However, a given ghost may be described by more than one of the following terms, as the following terms are used differently depending on which elements of a ghost's characteristics are focused on: Onryō : The term onryō refers to the spirit of a person who died with a grudge or hatred and was feared by people as bringing disaster through ...