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Hauntology (a portmanteau of haunting and ontology, also spectral studies, spectralities, or the spectral turn) is a range of ideas referring to the return or persistence of elements from the social or cultural past, as in the manner of a ghost.
In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or non-human animal that is believed by some people to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely, from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes to realistic, lifelike forms.
A Brocken spectre within glory rings. A Brocken spectre (British English; American spelling: Brocken specter; German: Brockengespenst), also called Brocken bow, mountain spectre, or spectre of the Brocken is the magnified (and apparently enormous) shadow of an observer cast in mid air upon any type of cloud opposite a strong light source.
An illustration of Andrew Lang's "Athenodorus confronts the Spectre" Ghostlore is an intricate web of traditional beliefs and folklore surrounding ghosts and hauntings . Ghostlore has ingrained itself in the cultural fabric of societies worldwide.
She can appear in a variety of forms, typically that of an ugly, frightful hag, but in some stories she chooses to appear young and beautiful. Some tales recount that the creature was actually a ghost, often of a specific murdered woman or a mother who died in childbirth. When several banshees appeared at once, it was said to indicate the death ...
SPECTRE ("Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion") [1] is a fictional organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, as well as films and video games based in the same universe.
Mavis is an orange female Ghost. Specter (voiced by Brendan Ryan Barrett) is a ghost spy who works for Betrayus. Fred is a white ghost that was used as a flag due to the lack of white clothes. Master Goo (voiced by Vincent Tong) is a Ninja Ghost. Captain Banshee is a ghost pirate who first appears in "Cap'n Banshee and his Interstellar Buccaneers".
The Shade of Tiresias Appearing to Odysseus during the Sacrifice (c. 1780–85), painting by Johann Heinrich Füssli, showing a scene from Book Ten of the Odyssey. In poetry and literature, a shade (translating Greek σκιά, [1] Latin umbra [2]) is the spirit or ghost of a dead person, residing in the underworld.