Transcript Ghosts Souls without Bodies

Ghosts
Souls without Bodies
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A manifestation of an individual after death that
remains in the vicinity of the community.
Generally seen as a negative force and can bring
about illness and other misfortune.
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Japanese Ghosts
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Vs. Soul (which is seen as a positive force).
Result of impure spirits of the recently dead who have not
yet undergone the correct rituals to become ancestors.
Ringu excerpt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQm3BV6s0r8&feature
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Western Ideas of Ghosts
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6th Sense trailer:
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White Noise trailer:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3_javlXgDg&feature
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haHHr5_VX7I
American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (AAEVP)
(From http://www.aaevp.com): “Electronic Voice
Phenomena (EVP) concerns unexpected voices found in
recording media. It is a form of after death
communication…. The Survival Hypothesis holds that we
are nonphysical entities who are able to exist in the
physical aspect of reality because of our physical body, but
that when our physical body dies, we as Self, change our
point of view to nonphysical reality. In effect, we exist
before and after our current lifetime.”
International Ghost Hunters Society
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http://www.ghostweb.com/
Vampires
Bodies without Souls
• A person who has died before his or her time and
who brings about the death of friends and
relatives until his or her corpse is “killed.”
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“Vampire” legend comes from Eastern Europe, but stories of the undead coming back to torment the living
abounds in countless cultures, throughout the millennia.
– Sekhmet (ancient Egypt) & blood.
– Eastern Europe:
• Austria: 18th century. Officials noted the practice of exhuming dead bodies and “killing” them.
Charges of vampirism included the accused looking bloated with blood seeping out of their orifices.
Appearance due to natural decomposition of the body, which was not so clearly understood?
• Bulgaria: 1-nostril
• Bavaria: Sleep with thumbs crossed and 1 eye open
• Moravia: Only attacked while naked
• Albania: Fond of high-heeled shoes
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– Africa…
– Asia…
– Rhode Island…
Bram Stoker, Vlad Tepes, Dracula, Elizabeth Bathory and the modern Vampire legend…
Modern-day Vampire groups: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/places/culture-places/food/usvampires-pp.html