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Showing posts with label Ghost. Show all posts

Umibozu - a Ocean Spirit in Japanese Folklore

Umibōzu is a soul in Japanese legends. The Umibōzu is said to live in the sea and invert the boat of any individual who challenges address it. This soul's name, which joins together the character for "ocean" with the character of "Buddhist friar," is conceivably identified with the way that the Umibōzu is said to have a substantial, round head, looking like the shaven heads of Buddhist ministers. On...
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Bugaboo - an Indian Ghost or Spirit

The Bugaboo is an Indian ghost or spirit, which is said to be friendly, guarding its village against evil spirits. Not so much data can be find regarding this ghost. If anyone have information about this, why not share with ...
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Duppy - a Ghost or Spirit in Northwest African

[click for image source] Duppy is a Jamaican Patois expressions of Northwest African beginning importance ghost or soul. Much of Caribbean fables rotates around Duppies. Duppies are usually viewed as pernicious spirits. They are said to turn out and frequent individuals during the evening for the most part, and individuals from the islands claim to have seen them. The "Rolling Calf" (an alarming...
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Nenek Kebayan - a Witch in Malay Folklore

[click for image source] Nenek Kebayan is a ghost or soul that is said to live in the bush in Malaysia. She has a great deal of witch wickedness mantra and knows a considerable measure about accepted herbs and prescription.. Nenek Kebayan has seen a quite revolting face as a long nose, form curved, seriously dressed and holding a sceptre. He exists in a house stowed away  and extremely modest...
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Minnie Quay - a Legend Paranormal of Michigan, United States

[click for image source] In 1852, the Quay family, father James and mother Mary Ann, existed in the caught up with stumbling town of Forester. Their little girl, Minnie, was just 15 around then. She had given her heart to an adolescent mariner whose boat might dock in Forester regularly for either delivering or shipper explanations. Very little is pondered the man of his word, just that Minnie...
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Deogen - a Ghost haunts in Sonian Forest, Belgium

The Deogen, "De Ogen" or The Eyes is a ghost that is said to haunt the Sonian Forest in Belgium, regularly seen in haze structure and accompanied by more modest shadow figures. The story, which is dependent upon an arrangement of correct occasions, has ended up even more a camp-fire story or urban legend with for all intents and purpose no sightings lately. [click for image source] Consistent...
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Muma Pădurii - an Ugly and Mean Old Woman

[click for image source] In Romanian old stories, Muma Pădurii is a monstrous and mean old woman living in the forest. Muma Pădurii truly implies "the Mother of the Forest", however "mumă" is an ancient form of "mamă" (mother), which has a fable hint for the Romanian onlooker (to some degree simple to utilizing the age-old pronouns like "thou" and "thy" in English). Various such expressions, regularly...
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Old Book - Ghost or Spirit haunts in Illinois, United States

[click for image source] Old Book is the name given to an implied phantom or spirit which frequents a cemetery and tree on the grounds of the Peoria State Hospital in Bartonville, Illinois. While rumours of phantoms and apparition stories are exceptionally theoretical, the Old Book story has been reported ordinarily. Around those archiving the story is the first chief of the state crazy asylum,...
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La Llorona - The Weeping Woman in North and South America

[click for image source] La Llorona ("The Weeping Woman") is a widespread legend in North and South America. In spite of the fact that some varieties exist, the essential story recounts an excellent lady by the name of Maria who suffocates her children to be with the man that she cherished. The man might not have her, which crushed her. She might not take no for a reply, so she suffocated herself...
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Teke Teke - a Ghost of Young Women or School Girl in Japan

[click for image source] The Teke Teke (generally called Tek-Tek) is a Japanese ghost story about the apparition of an energetic woman, or school adolescent woman, who fell on a rail way line and was cut fifty-fifty by the approaching arrange. Immediately a vengeful spirit (Onryō), she passes on a sickle or a saw and voyages on either her hand or elbows, her dragging upper centre making a scratching...
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Joe Bush - a Legendary Ghost in Sumpter, Oregon, United States

[click for image source] Joe Bush is an unfathomable apparition that professedly frequents the Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge in Sumpter, Oregon, United States. Burrow authorities handling the No. 3 burrow at Sumpter Valley have purportedly attested the ghost leaves wet, uncovered foot formed impacts on the burrow's decks, causes lights to glimmer, and tracks to open and close startlingly. Previous...
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Zmeu - a Fantastic Creature of Romanian Folklore

[click for image source] The Zmeu is a marvelous creature of Romanian tales and Romanian mythology. Now and again appeared differently in relation to other lavish creatures, for instance the balaur or the vârcolac, the zmeu is by the by distinctive, because it as a principle has clear human qualities: it is humanoid and has legs, arms, the competence to make and utilize obsolescents, for instance...
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Lang Suir - a Ghost of Woman who Died while Giving Birth in Malay and Indonesian Mythology

[click for image source] The Lang suir, from Malaysian lore, is one of the most feared and deadliest of all banshees of Malaysia. It was believed that woman who died giving birth to their child, who also dies, will become a Lang suir after 40 days. She is described as being hideous with red piercing eyes, sharp claws, very long hair, a decayed face, and huge fangs. She is able to fly and is most...
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The Cock Lane Ghost - a Haunted Apartment in United Kingdom

[click for image source] The Cock Lane ghost was a purported haunting that attracted mass public attention in 1762.  The location was an apartment in Cock Lane, a short road adjacent to London's Smithfield market and a few minutes' walk from St Paul's Cathedral.  The event centred around three people: William Kent, a usurer from Norfolk, Richard Parsons, a parish clerk, and...
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Brown Lady of Raynham Hall - a Ghost haunts Raynham Hall, United Kingdom

[click for image source] The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall is a phantom, which purportedly frequents Raynham Hall in Norfolk. It turned into a stand-out amongst the most celebrated around the world hauntings in Great Britain when photographic artists from Country Life magazine guaranteed to have caught its picture. The "Brown Lady" is so named in view of the tan brocade dress it is guaranteed she...
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Moroi - a Type of Vampire in Romanian Folklore

A moroi (once in a while moroii) is a sort of vampire or phantom in Romanian old stories. A female moroi is known as a moroaică. In a few renditions, a moroi is a ghost of a dead individual which leaves the grave to draw vigour from the living. Moroi are regularly connected with different figures in Romanian old stories, for example Strigoi (an alternate sort of vampire), Vârcolac (werewolf), or...
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Blue Lady - a Ghost of Woman in America

[click for image source] The Blue Lady is the apparition of a lady supposedly seen in and around the Moss Beach Distillery Cafe in Moss Beach, California; she is so-named on the grounds that she typically dressed all in blue. She is said to begin from the Prohibition time. The point when the Distillery (known in its ahead of schedule years as "Frank's Place", after its maker and possessor,...
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Yuki-onna - a Spirit or Yokai in Japanese Folklore

[click for image source] Yuki Onna (snow lady) is a spirit or yōkai in Japanese legends. She is a prevalent figure in Japanese literary works, manga, and cartoon. She may also go by such names as yuki-musume "snow girl",yuki-onago "snow wench", yukijorō "snow harlot", yuki anesa "snow sis'", yuki-omba "snow granny or snow nanny", yukinba "snow hag" (Ehime), yukifuri-baba(?) "snowfall hag"(Nagano). Yuki-onna...
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Nyai Roro Kidul - a Legendary Indonesian Female Spirit

[click for image source] Nyai Loro Kidul (additionally spelled Nyi Roro Kidul) is a fabulous Indonesian female spirit or divinity, reputed to be the Queen of the Southern Sea of Java (Indian Ocean or Samudra Kidul south of Java island) in Javanese and Sundanese mythology. As per Javanese convictions, she is additionally the legendary profound associate of the Sultans of Mataram and Yogyakarta,...
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Headless Nun - a Ghost without Head in Canada

[click for image source] The Headless Nun is a ghost story associated with French Fort Cove in Nordin, now the City of Miramichi, New Brunswick. Consistent with the story that goes once more to the mid 1700s, the Headless Nun was an eighteenth century occupant of the zone named Sister Marie (Inconnue being the French for 'unknown') who was in this manner executed. Portions of the story differ:...
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