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In Nigerian culture, ghosts are considered as a manifestation of the spirit world and are often believed to have a significant impact on the living. Ghost stories in Nigeria vary from region to region and are influenced by the diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds of its people.
The experts weigh in on whether or not ghosts are real, hauntings, paranormal activity, poltergeists and what some believe happens after we die.
In a ghost marriage, many typical marriage rites are observed. The deceased are often represented by effigies made of paper, bamboo, [18]: 71 or cloth. [17]: 147 For instance, to represent the ghost couple at their marriage feast, the bride and groom may be constructed of paper bodies over a bamboo frame with a papier-mâché head.
Ghosts with small means (少財鬼; shǎo cái guǐ): Needle-hair ghosts (針毛鬼; zhēnmáo guǐ) have hair like iron needles, distressing to themselves and others. Smelly-hair ghosts (臭毛鬼; chòumáo guǐ) have spike-like hair that emits an awful odor. Tumour ghosts (癭鬼; yǐng guǐ) have large goiters on whose pus they must feed.
White Ladies, indigenously known as kaperosa, are popular ghost story topics in the Philippines. White Ladies are often used to convey horror and mystery to young children for storytelling. Sightings of White Ladies are common around the country. The most prominent one is the White Lady of Balete Drive in Quezon City.
“You get lots of stories of getting tricked,” William Jankowiak, an anthropologist who has extensively studied love in folktales, told me. That’s why, for much of human history, the marriage historian Stephanie Coontz writes, people thought lifelong partnership was “too important” to be left up to love. Marriage was a business contract.
Belief in ghosts in Thai culture is both popular and enduring. [1] In the history of Thailand , Buddhist popular beliefs intermingled with legends of spirits or ghosts of local folklore . These myths have survived and evolved, having been adapted to the modern media, such as Thai films , Thai television soap operas , and Thai comics .
While there are a large number of stories where immortality enables the unscrupulous to consolidate power, the 1954 novel They'd Rather Be Right (a.k.a. The Forever Machine) by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley envisions a scenario where that cannot happen. In the story, there is a computer which can confer immortality on individuals.