| - In India, an acheri is the ghost of a little girl who causes disease. It can spread disease just by simply casting its shadow over its victims. The bhust is he ghost of a man who died in suicide, accident or execution. Just as nasty is the airi, the ghost of a man who was killed in a hunt. A churl is the ghost of a woman who died in childbirth or in some unpure ritual. They have no mouth and their feet face the wrong direction. - In Arab legends, the afrit is the spirit of a murdered man who seeks revenge by killing the living. - In ancient Assyria, an ekimmu is a ghost of a man who died a violent or unpleasant death. The spirit was denied entrance to the underworld and therefore had to haunt the earth. - In Ireland, a fetch, is an astral double or apparition of a living person. Seeing one means bad luck and if seen at night, is a death omen. - Among Native Americans, whirlwinds are sometimes thought to be evil spirits of the dead. - The Old Hag syndrome is an unexplained night-time phenomenon in which a person suddenly awakens feeling suffocated, paralyzed or weighed down in bed by some invisible force. - In medieval Europe, an incubus was a demon spirit that assumed the shape of a man who sexually attacked women in their sleep. A succubus took the shape of a woman who molested men in their sleep. |
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