Ghosts, Poltergeists Hauntings

Ghost, Poltergeists Hauntings is the name given to an entry in the Book of Shadows, written by an unknown witch of the Warren Line.

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 *  Ghosts, Poltergeists 
 *  Hauntings 


 * The term "ghost" conjures up an image, peaceful or tortured,
 * of the spirit of someone who has died. It is generally assumed
 * that the dead, if restless and returned from the grave, would
 * be attracted either to their relatives, people with whom they
 * had some close association during life or to places that
 * had a special meaning to them. One theory holds that events
 * imprint themselves on the substance of the environment. Because
 * they are trapped in the fabric of time, their images are eternally
 * reenacted. The spirits of the murdered are often said to return
 * to the scene of their death as a reproachful or vengeful reminder.
 * Ghosts are not necessarily visible, frightening or ethereal.
 * Indeed, many have been mistaken for solid, physical individuals.
 * Furthermore, ghosts may be perceived in a variety of ways,
 * though often only visible to psychics, while non-psychics merely
 * "feel" or "sense" their presence. If an individual possesses some
 * psychic faculty, they may perceive the ghost by means of vision,
 * sound or feeling. Ghosts can also be experienced through other
 * sensory perceptions, including the perception of a change in
 * temperature, movement and touch. There may be noises,
 * voices, music or other sounds that suggest the presence of
 * supernatural phenomena. Other indirect "sightings" include
 * the mysterious appearance of writing or apports such as:

 Categories of Ghosts and Spirits 
 * Influences : the mildest form of ghost. They manifest themselves in a
 * vague sort of "feeling" which adhere to places or accasionally
 * to objects. often unpleasantly, but in no more tangible form.


 * Poltergeists : the noisy ghosts. These manifest themselves by destructive
 * outbursts of energy, which cause physical results of various types,
 * usually involving the destruction of household objects or loud noises.
 * A poltergeist may manifest itself by moving or levitating objects.


 * Apparitions : the traditional ghosts, which are the shadowy figures
 * that appear and disappear. They are often associated with historical
 * locations. Some apparitions have been of the living, and others have
 * been animals and objects, for example ghost ships, phantom animals
 * or mysteriously appearing and disappearing objects.


 * Phantasms of the living : are apparitions of people who are still alive,
 * but who appear in one place while their physical body remains in
 * other. Such apparitions usually indicate: people who are on the
 * point of death, who manifest themselves to someone closely involved
 * with them; or are people who are conveying some message of urgency
 * (for example, the mother who appears to warn her child of danger) or
 * people who are asleep at the time and who project their astral bodies
 * accidentally or intentionally.


 * Hauntings : when the characteristics of apparitions and poltergeists
 * are considered to result in psychic phenomena of an alarmingly high
 * rate or nature.