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Nü gui (Chinese: 女鬼; pinyin: nǚ guǐ; lit. 'female ghost'), is a vengeful female ghost with long hair in a white or red dress, a recurring trope in folklore, schoolyard rumor-mongering, urban legend, and popular culture. [34] In folklore, this ghost is the spirit of a woman who committed suicide while wearing a red dress.
In the television series The X-Files, 1996, Season 3, Episode 19 entitled Hell Money a story of Chinese ghost culture is spun around a black market organ procurement scheme. The Teenage Psychic is a Taiwanese mini-series that ran from 2017-2019 about a young medium who communicates with ghosts. It is a fun look into Taiwanese high school life ...
Mogwai, a vengeful ghost or demon in Chinese mythology; Nü gui, (Chinese: 女鬼; pinyin: nǚ guǐ; lit. 'female ghost') a vengeful female ghost of Chinese folklore. She appears with untied hair. [9] Yuan gui (Chinese: 冤鬼; pinyin: yuān guǐ; lit. 'ghost with grievance'), the spirits of persons who have died wrongful deaths [10]
White Lady. A depiction of John Dee (1527–1608) and Edward Kelley invoking a spirit. A White Lady (or woman in white) is a type of female ghost. She is typically dressed in a white dress or similar garment, reportedly seen in rural areas and associated with local legends of tragedy.
The Painted Skin. " The Painted Skin " (Chinese: 畫皮; pinyin: Huàpí) is a short story by the Chinese writer Pu Songling collected in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio in 1740. Literary critics have recognised it as one of the best and best-known entries in Strange Tales; in particular, its textual detail and in-depth characterisation are ...
A Chinese Ghost Story performed well at the Hong Kong box office, earning HK$ 18,831,638 (US$2,414,932) and becoming 1987's fifteenth highest-grossing film in Hong Kong. [ 7 ] [ 13 ] In Taiwan, it was the 11th highest-grossing film of 1987, selling 187,654 tickets and earning NT$ 12,684,540 [ 14 ] (US$443,515). [ 15 ]
Southeast Asia (except East Timor) The Krasue (Thai: กระสือ, pronounced [krā.sɯ̌ː]) is a nocturnal female spirit of Southeast Asian folklore. It manifests as the floating, disembodied head of a woman, usually young and beautiful, with her internal organs still attached and trailing down from the neck. [1]
Mandarin. Box office. US$24.7 million. A Chinese Ghost Story, also known as A Chinese Fairy Tale, is a 2011 fantasy-supernatural film directed by Wilson Yip, [1] starring Louis Koo, Liu Yifei, Yu Shaoqun, Kara Hui, Louis Fan, and Wang Danyi Li. The film is adapted from the short story Nie Xiaoqian in Pu Songling 's Strange Stories from a ...