Ghaist

Ghaist

Groupin	Legendar craitur
Sub groupin	Undeid
Seemilar creaturs	Revenant
Region	Europe, Americae, Asie, Africae, Oceanie

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.

Freemit airtins

Rake fer ghost i the test
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• "Ghost Theory" of 18th century German theologian Johan Ernst Schubert and a list of vernacular house spirits and ghosts
• Historical Ghost Stories