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View of the bhuta gallery, Crafts Museum, New Delhi, India. The bhutas, spirits of deified heroes, of fierce and evil beings, of Hindu deities and of animals, etc., are wrongly referred to as "ghosts" or "demons" and, in fact, are protective and benevolent beings. Though it is true that they can cause harm in their violent forms, as they are ...
Aleya (or marsh ghost-light) is the name given to an unexplained strange light phenomena occurring over the marshes as observed in Bengal. Chir Batti, Chhir Batti or Cheer batti is a ghost light reported in the Banni grasslands, a seasonal marshy wetlands and adjoining desert of the marshy salt flats of the Rann of Kutch.
The ghost pepper, [2] [3] also known as bhüt jolokia (lit. ' Bhutanese pepper ' or 'Ghost pepper' in Assamese [ 4 ] ), is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in Northeast India . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It is a hybrid of Capsicum chinense and Capsicum frutescens .
Mahābhūta, classical elements in Hindu and Buddhist philosophy also represented by the name Bhuta-Shakti or primordial states of matter and the connected spirits Bhut jolokia , ghost pepper Bhut, Nawanshahr , a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India
Preta (Sanskrit: प्रेत, Standard Tibetan: ཡི་དྭགས་ yi dags), also known as hungry ghost, is the Sanskrit name for a type of supernatural being described in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Chinese folk religion as undergoing suffering greater than that of humans, particularly an extreme level of hunger and thirst. [1]
The history of Bhuta Kola is unknown but some scholars suppose that this tradition was probably originated during 700 BCE by the migration of early tulu tribes introducing the worship of Bermer , Panjurli (the boar spirit) and other spirits although Bhuta Kola is a modified form of prehistoric religious rituals.
According to the Royal Institute Dictionary, the Thai term "ปิศาจ" (pisat), from Sanskrit, pishacha, is defined as "ghost" (ผี). [4] Although not strictly Thai ghosts, the Pishacha appear in some stories in Thai folklore.
More recently, Ghosh has described a distinction between the Bhuta of southern India, as worshipped by the Billavas, and the similarly named demons of the north . In northern India the word bhuta generally refers to a ghost or a malign presence.