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Bogey [28] or bogy/bogie is a term for a ghost, and appears in Scottish poet John Mayne's Hallowe'en in 1780. [29] [30] A revenant is a deceased person returning from the dead to haunt the living, either as a disembodied ghost or alternatively as an animated ("undead") corpse.
Apparitions - See Ghost; Aqua fortis - Old alchemical term for nitric acid. Aqua ragia - Old alchemical term for turpentine. Aqua regia - Mixture of aqua fortis and spirit of salt. Aquarius, an astrological sign; Aqua vitae - Old alchemical term for ethanol. Arachnomancy; Arcandam; Archaeomancy, divination through the use of special relics
Sometimes the term "ghost" is used synonymously with any spirit or demon; [13] however, in popular usage the term typically refers to the spirit of a deceased person. The belief in ghosts as souls of the departed is closely tied to the concept of animism, an ancient belief that attributed souls to everything in nature. [14]
Similar to ghosts, Dillard says that we may occasionally feel the presence of those loved ones after they are gone, whether it be in dreams, paranormal activity or other encounter.
Emily, the ghost of a young girl who supposedly haunts a covered bridge in Stowe, Vermont. The bridge is dubbed "Emily's Bridge" and she is said to be seen only at midnight; Oscar Washburn, the ghost of a black goat farmer who allegedly haunts Old Alton Bridge in Copper Canyon, Texas. He is commonly known as "the Goatman" as he is said to ...
This category lists terminology used in parapsychology and to describe paranormal or anomalous phenomena. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
'鬼' (Mandarin pinyin: guǐ) is the general Chinese term for ghost which itself is a derivative of the verb "wei 威", which means "awe inspiring". [29] Belief in ghosts in China is widespread and is often closely associated with ancestor worship. [30] Ghosts have been the subject of censorship in China at various times. [31] [29]
Bram Stoker considered using the title, The Un-Dead, for his novel Dracula (1897), and use of the term in the novel is mostly responsible for the modern sense of the word. . The word does appear in English before Stoker but with the more literal sense of "alive" or "not dead", for which citations can be found in the Oxford English Dictiona