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Nü gui (Chinese: 女鬼; pinyin: nǚ guǐ; lit. 'female ghost'), is a vengeful female ghost with long hair in a white or red dress, a recurring trope in folklore, schoolyard rumor-mongering, urban legend, and popular culture. [34] In folklore, this ghost is the spirit of a woman who committed suicide while wearing a red dress.
"Bongcheon-Dong Ghost" starts with a warning, stating "Reader discretion is advised for pregnant women, the elderly, and those suffering from serious medical conditions". [10] Set in Bongcheon-dong, Seoul, a student, walking home from school late at night, meets a female ghost who is apparently looking for her baby. The frightened student ...
According to traditional beliefs a ghost is the spirit form of a person who has died. Ghosts are typically malevolent and will cause harm to the living if provoked. Many Chinese folk beliefs about ghosts have been adopted into the mythologies and folklore of neighboring East Asian cultures, notably Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
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The Lady of the Head and Lady of the Heads are two of the many names given to Our Lady. Several of her names are thought to be of pre-Roman origin. Names like Senhora da Noite (lit. ' Lady of the Night '), [76] Senhora da Luz ("Lady of the Light"), Señora de Carbayo ("Lady of the Oak Tree") are spread all over the peninsula.
Pocong (Indonesian pronunciation: [pɔ't͡ʃɔŋ] poh-chong; from Javanese: ꦥꦺꦴꦕꦺꦴꦁ, romanized: pocong, lit. 'wrapped-in-shroud') is a ghost that looks like a person wrapped in a funeral cloth. [1] In Islamic funeral, a shroud called a "kain kafan" (in Indonesian and Malay) is used to wrap the body of the dead person. The dead ...
Ghost of Queen Esther, the ghost of an Iroquois woman who allegedly mourns the massacre of her village in Pennsylvania. Ghosts of the American Civil War; Greenbrier Ghost, the alleged ghost of a young woman in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. In a court trial, the woman's mother claimed that her daughter's ghost told her she had been murdered.
A Chinese Ghost Story performed well at the Hong Kong box office, earning HK$ 18,831,638 (US$2,414,932) and becoming 1987's fifteenth highest-grossing film in Hong Kong. [ 7 ] [ 13 ] In Taiwan, it was the 11th highest-grossing film of 1987, selling 187,654 tickets and earning NT$ 12,684,540 [ 14 ] (US$443,515). [ 15 ]