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Ghosts Souls without Bodies

Ghosts Souls without Bodies. A manifestation of an individual after death that remains in the vicinity of the community. Generally seen as a negative force and can bring about illness and other misfortune. Vs. Soul (which is seen as a positive force). Japanese Ghosts

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Ghosts Souls without Bodies

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  1. GhostsSouls without Bodies • A manifestation of an individual after death that remains in the vicinity of the community. Generally seen as a negative force and can bring about illness and other misfortune. • Vs. Soul (which is seen as a positive force). • Japanese Ghosts • Result of impure spirits of the recently dead who have not yet undergone the correct rituals to become ancestors. • Ringu excerpt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQm3BV6s0r8&feature=related • Western Ideas of Ghosts • 6th Sense trailer: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3_javlXgDg&feature=related • White Noise trailer: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haHHr5_VX7I • American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (AA-EVP) • (From http://www.aaevp.com): “Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) concerns unexpected voices found in recording media.  It is a form of after death communication…. The Survival Hypothesis holds that we are nonphysical entities who are able to exist in the physical aspect of reality because of our physical body, but that when our physical body dies, we as Self, change our point of view to nonphysical reality.  In effect, we exist before and after our current lifetime.” • International Ghost Hunters Society • http://www.ghostweb.com/

  2. VampiresBodies without Souls • A person who has died before his or her time and who brings about the death of friends and relatives until his or her corpse is “killed.” • “Vampire” legend comes from Eastern Europe, but stories of the undead coming back to torment the living abounds in countless cultures, throughout the millennia. • Sekhmet (ancient Egypt) & blood. • Eastern Europe: • Austria: 18th century. Officials noted the practice of exhuming dead bodies and “killing” them. Charges of vampirism included the accused looking bloated with blood seeping out of their orifices. Appearance due to natural decomposition of the body, which was not so clearly understood? • Bulgaria: 1-nostril • Bavaria: Sleep with thumbs crossed and 1 eye open • Moravia: Only attacked while naked • Albania: Fond of high-heeled shoes • Africa… • Asia… • Rhode Island… • Bram Stoker, Vlad Tepes, Dracula, Elizabeth Bathory and the modern Vampire legend… • Modern-day Vampire groups: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/places/culture-places/food/us-vampires-pp.html

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