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  2. Bhoota (ghost) - Wikipedia

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    Paranormal. A bhoota or bhuta ( Sanskrit: भूत, bhūta) is a supernatural creature, usually the ghost of a deceased person, in the popular culture, literature and some ancient texts of the Indian subcontinent. [ 1] Interpretations of how bhootas come into existence vary by region and community, but they are usually considered to be ...

  3. Nale Ba - Wikipedia

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    Nale Ba or Naale Baa (English: "come tomorrow") ( Kannada: ನಾಳೆ ಬಾ) is a popular folk legend which features prominently in areas across Karnataka, India. [ 1][ 2] "Naale Baa" has been found written on the doors and walls of the towns and villages for certain years. [ 3][ 4] People write this on walls to prevent the entry of a ...

  4. Ghosts in Bengali culture - Wikipedia

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    Ghosts are an important and integral part of the folklore of the socio-cultural fabric of the geographical and ethno-linguistic region of Bengal which presently consists of Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura. Bengali folktales and Bengali cultural identity are intertwined in such a way that ghosts depicted reflect the ...

  5. Lekin... - Wikipedia

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    Writing for Scroll.in, Damini Kulkarni wrote, "Lekin draws a powerful analogy between a ghost frozen in time and a woman repeatedly victimised by men." [ 39 ] Meheli Sen, in her book Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema labelled the film as an "iteration of the Gothic film ". [ 40 ]

  6. Om mani padme hum - Wikipedia

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    Om mani padme hum. Oṃ maṇi padme hūm̐[ 1] ( Sanskrit: ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ, IPA: [õːː mɐɳɪ pɐdmeː ɦũː]) is the six-syllabled Sanskrit mantra particularly associated with the four-armed Shadakshari form of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion. It first appeared in the Mahayana ...

  7. Ghostwriter - Wikipedia

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    Ghostwriter. The popular demand for Tom Clancy 's action novels exceeded his ability to write new books. As a result, his publisher hired ghostwriters to write novels in the Clancy style. A ghostwriter is a person hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are putatively credited to another person as the author.

  8. List of English words of Sanskrit origin - Wikipedia

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    B. Bandana. from Sanskrit बन्धन bandhana, "a bond". Banyan. from Hindi baniyaa ultimately from Sanskrit वणिज्‌ vaṇij, which means "a merchant". [ 9] Basmati. Type of long grain rice, highly valued for its smell and texture. Through Hindi बासमती ultimately from Sanskrit वास vāsa.

  9. The Mystery Behind Being a Ghost Writer - AOL

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    Ghost writing isn't even remotely paranormal -- it's more about "ghosting" someone and writing their story in the first person as if you were him or her. When I was growing up, my mom (Nancy Bacon ...