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It includes ghosts that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Ghosts and spirits of dead girls or women in folklore , legends , and mythology . Note that this category is also inclusive of all kinds of undead women besides ghosts; including revenants , vampires , or zombies .
In Hungarian mythology, a white lady was the ghost of a girl or young woman that died violently; usually, young women who committed suicide, were murdered, or died while imprisoned. The ghost is usually bound to a specific location and is often identified as a specific person (e.g. Elizabeth Báthory [24]).
Nü gui (Chinese: 女鬼; pinyin: nǚ guǐ; lit. 'female ghost'), is a vengeful female ghost with long hair in a white or red dress, a recurring trope in folklore, schoolyard rumor-mongering, urban legend, and popular culture. [34] In folklore, this ghost is the spirit of a woman who committed suicide while wearing a red dress.
Female ghosts (3 C, 48 P) Goddesses (6 C, 8 P) A. Apsara (11 P) F. ... Pages in category "Female spirits" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
A female moroi is called a moroaică (pl. moroaice). In some versions, a moroi is a phantom of a dead person which leaves the grave to draw energy from the living. Moroi are often associated with other figures in Romanian folklore, such as strigoi (another type of vampire), vârcolac ( werewolf ), or pricolici (werewolf).
Gwisin (Korean: 귀신) are a type of deity, divinity, spirit or ghost in Korean folklore. [1] They are considered similar to a yogoe (Korean: 요괴) or mamul (Korean: 마물). Unlike dokkaebi, gwisin are humans who have died. [2] According to folklore, gwisin may be found in many places. It is claimed that when an individual dies but still ...
A Lady in Red or Red Lady is a type of female ghost, similar to the White Lady, but according to legend is more specifically attributed to a jilted lover, killed in a fit of passion, or woman of vanity. In all cases, the Lady in Red is wearing a scarlet or blood red dress. She is said to typically be friendly in disposition, with a story ...
Dís also had the meaning "lady" in Old Norse poetry, [2] as in the case of Freyja, whose name means "lady" and who is called Vanadís ("lady of the vanir"). Adding to the ambiguous meaning of dís is the fact that just as supernatural women were called dísir in the sense "ladies", mortal women were frequently called by names for supernatural ...