In fowklair an meethologie, a ghaist (sometimes kent as a spectre [Breetish Inglis] or specter [American Inglis], phantom, apparition, spirit, spook, or haunt) is the soul or spirit o a deid fowk or ainimal that can appear tae the livin. Descriptions o ghaists vary widely frae a invisible presence tae translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, tae realistic, lifelike veesions. The deliberate attempt tae contact the spirit o a deceased body is kent as necromancy, or in spiritism as a séance.
