Category: Ghost Glossary

The belief that a spiritual aspect of the human being survives the destruction of the physical body is a feature of all religious traditions, with…

A talking board is a device for divining answers to questions and talking with spirits, often marketed as a game. Talking boards are similar to…

Totemism is that part of ANIMISM that relates to a mystical connection believed to occur between human beings and certain features of the world in…

In folklore, wells are believed to be passageways for Ghosts and spirits to enter the physical world. If a home or building is on top…

An astral guardian is an entity, ghost, or thought-form that guards a place, especially of a sacred nature. An astral guardian is usually invisible but…

Saturday The last day of the week, and thus the end of a cycle, is both lucky and unlucky in superstition and folklore; some unlucky…

Revenants are the dead who return from the grave. “Revenant,” a term common in earlier times, once was a common synonym for Ghost. Nearly all…

Retrocognition is a displacement in time in which one apparently sees into the past, to either experience or review events of which one has no…

A psychopomp is in mythology, a supernatural being who conducts the soul in safety to the afterworld. Psychopompoi are universal in myth and lore. In…

A special place where one consults with or contacts the dead. The term “psychomanteum” refers to oracles of the dead that were popular in the…