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Kali Fajardo-Anstine was born in Denver, Colorado in 1986. She is the second eldest of six siblings, five sisters and one brother. [1]She struggled with depression [2] growing up because she didn’t feel she fit in culturally or socially with her peers, and turned to books and writing for comfort.
North American people associated with ghost sickness include the Navajo and some Muscogee and Plains cultures. In the Muscogee (Creek) culture, it is believed that everyone is a part of an energy called Ibofanga. This energy supposedly results from the flow between mind, body, and spirit. Illness can result from this flow being disrupted.
In Navajo religious belief, a chindi (Navajo: chʼį́įdii) is the miasma left behind after a person dies, believed to leave the body with the deceased's last breath.It is everything that was negative about the person’s life; pain, fear, anger, disappointment, dissatisfaction, resentment, and rejection as the "residue that man has been unable to bring into universal harmony". [1]
Bisaya – the soul, called dungan, can be taken by bad spirits; souls can also be imprisoned in a sacred spirit cave guarded by Tan Mulong, who has a spirit dog with one mammary gland and two genitals; sickness is believed to be the temporary loss of the dungan, while death is its permanent loss; old tradition says that before inhabiting the ...
Ghost sickness: Native American (Navajo, Muscogee/Creek) Hwabyeong: Korean: Koro: Chinese, Malaysian and Indonesian populations in Southeast Asia; Assam; occasionally in the West Latah: Malaysia and Indonesia, as well as the Philippines (as mali-mali, particularly among Tagalogs) Locura: Latinos in the United States and Latin America Mal de ...
If the relatives failed to make offerings, the ghost could become restless and visit sickness and misfortune on them. [3] Physical ailments resulting from hearing or seeing a ghost included headaches, eye and ear problems, various intestinal pains, shortness of breath and dizziness, fever and neurological and mental disorders.
After death, a person's ghost would normally travel to the sky world or the underworld, but some could stay on earth. In many Polynesian legends, ghosts were often involved in the affairs of the living. Ghosts might also cause sickness or even invade the body of ordinary people, to be driven out through strong medicines. [1]
Ghana has a long history of ghost folklore and beliefs. In the Akan culture, a 'ghost' is a malevolent spirit from Asamando, which haunt and eat humans, although they are not always aggressive, but are rarely benevolent. They are believed to be unable to eat pepper, so someone avoiding consuming pepper is supposedly a sign of being a ghost. [35 ...