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Ghost stories are a beloved ritual at camp outs and sleepovers. For some, telling a ghost story is more daunting than listening to one. Telling a ghost story requires a different talent than writing one because you can use facial expressions and other gestures. You can tell a ghost story by combining a variety of fiction and... more »
Ghosts can be creepy, funny or downright horrifying, and they make a great illustration for Halloween. A ghost is so simple to draw you will want to create dozens of them all over your sketchbooks. You can draw a ghost in a mere minute or two if you follow some easy steps to create the spooky or humorous haunting of your dreams. more »
Although Saskatchewan is just over 100-years-old, it's a province with a very enigmatic history. Known as the "land of living skies," Saskatchewan is the home of many non-living things that appear to be very much alive--including ghosts. To say that history has a way of repeating itself in Saskatchewan is an understatement. The ghosts... more »
Ghost stories have fascinated and frightened us since the beginning of time. Many of us wonder about life after death and what might be waiting for us on the other side, but more often we find ourselves wondering what is still here with us on this side. That's the reason ghost stories are so popular. more »
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A ghost has been defined as the disembodied spirit or soul of a deceased person,, retrieved December 24, 2007 although in popular usage the term refers only to the apparition of such a person."parasych">, Retrieved December 13, 2006 Often described as immaterial and partly transparent, ghosts are reported to haunt particular locations or people that they were associated with in life or at time of death.
Phantom armies, ghost animals, ghost trains and phantom ships have also been reported.Hole, pp. 150-163Daniel Cohen (1994) Encyclopedia of Ghosts. London, Michael O Mara Books: 8
Ghosts or similar paranormal entities appear in film, theatre, literature, myths, legends, and some religions.
Terminology
The English word ghost continues Old English gást, hypothetical Common Germanic *gaisto-z. It is common to West Germanic, but lacking in North and East Germanic (the equivalent word in Gothic is ahma, Old Norse has andi m., önd f.).
The pre-Germanic form would have been , apparently from a root denoting "fury, anger", cognate to Sanskrit hedas "anger", reflected in Old Norse geisa "to rage". The Germanic word is recorded as masculine only, but likely continues a neuter s-stem. The original meaning of the Germanic word would thus have been an animating principle of the mind, in particular capable of excitation and fury (compare óðr). In Germanic paganism, "Germanic Mercury", and the later Odin, was at the same time the conductor of the dead and the "lord of fury" leading the Wild Hunt.
Besides denoting the human spirit or soul, both of the living and the deceased, the Old English word is used as a synonym of Latin spiritus also in the meaning of "breath, blast" from the earliest (9th century) attestations. It could also denote any good or evil spirit, i.e. angels and demons; the Anglo-Saxon gospel refers to the demonic possession of Matthew 12:43 as se unclæna gast. Also from the Old English period, the word could denote the spiri read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost
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