This really very scary Japanese ghost story from director Hideo Nakata exerts a chilling grip with its icy calm and eerie reticence. |
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A tradition grew up around this annual event whereby once the cake was cut and the goodies all eaten it was time for ghost stories. |
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A number of players employed ghost writers, who in turn, produced articles which were not actually correct. |
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The whole thing bogs down to an annoyingly slow pace and then just confuses us with a weird ghost story. |
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Alf also taped the voice of his ghost to prove to neighbours he had not gone round the twist. |
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There were dodgem cars, helter-skelters, waltzers, ghost trains, rifle ranges and lots more but two I remember more than most. |
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There were dodgem cars, helter skelters, waltzers, ghost trains, rifle ranges and lots more but two I remember more than most. |
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Predicted by quantum theory, ghost radiation is a negative energy field that dampens normal positive energy. |
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A side road north of Lee Vining leads into a washboarded dirt trail, to the ghost town of Bodie. |
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This is no watered-down ghost story thrown into theaters for teenage consumption. |
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Some ten per cent of the population claim to have seen a ghost or some other apparition that seems completely invisible to others. |
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There, in the middle of a cornfield, just beyond a row of housing projects, sits a weather-beaten ghost town called Westec City. |
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It felt like I wanted to reconcile with them, to lay a ghost, but I never managed to. |
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Even our closest allies in the US and UK were shocked and mortified, raising the ghost of the White Australia policy. |
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To tell the truth, folks, there are so many debates running in parallel here that I'm inclined to give up the ghost. |
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Rooted in immemorial folk beliefs, ghost stories, as a literary genre, have their own conventions and are a comparatively recent development. |
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He said he has two ghost gums which are about 15 metres from his white cedar tree and hopes to eventually replace the cedar tree with them. |
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Every single one is simply a scurrying shadow or quick image of a ghost accompanied by a loud whomp of scare noise from the orchestra. |
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The stately three-storey Georgian edifice agleam with intricate furniture comes complete with the ghost of former mistress Annie Palmer. |
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All that means is, they're allied with Khrushchev instead of with the ghost of Stalin. |
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He was wearing a hot pink polo shirt, khaki shorts, and his legs were white as a ghost. |
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His eyes, lazy a second ago, stared at me wildly as if I was a ghost, an apparition. |
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The ghost of his splits hang over Bigger than Blue, but it never slips into woebegone narratives or diatribes. |
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Fairly recently I have been fishing fisheries in Devon that contain koi and ghost carp. |
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A ghost tour, relished especially by the kids will take you to the haunted St. Philip Street. |
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And David O'Brien's father thinks Maria is the ghost of the mythical Dubhana, come back to wreak vengeance on him. |
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If you set out to lay a ghost by writing a novel, it may or may not end up being a good book. |
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For me, drawing's uniqueness has something to do with the fundamental activity of actually trying to lay a ghost or exorcise oneself. |
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It won't lay a ghost overnight, but such a campaign might stop anarchy and chaos for ever haunting football yet to come. |
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Having said that, this is an opportunity to lay a ghost to rest and rehearse a form of communication that is common in professional practice. |
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But she's also keen to lay a ghost from her past that could also provide her with some hope for the future. |
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Once you have laid a ghost to rest, he or she can join your team and you can use them in future missions. |
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I think, accordingly, the best thing for me to do is, to sit down and lay the ghost by writing out my story. |
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Can it lay the ghost of the Roman imperium and become something other than a male gerontocracy? |
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His role, unlike the musicologist Cooke, has been as a composer working alongside Elgar's ghost. |
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It is squarely in the tradition of Japanese ghost stories, where revenants deal out cruel and inexplicable vengeance for obscure reasons. |
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Other activities include hiking, antiquing, exploring nearby ghost towns and hosted shooting clinics at their range. |
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After years of struggles and being unable to recognize the changing market, last October, it finally gave up the ghost and decided to liquidate. |
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It wasn't a ghost that rocked up at the Veterinary Clinic in Selborne, 10 days ago. |
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For three nights in a row, the ghost of King Hamlet has been witnessed roaming the grounds at midnight. |
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As soon as the Move command starts and a ghost image appears as you drag the entities, the entities are regenerated so they appear as boxes. |
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Perhaps Euclid's ghost is stalking the English countryside by night, leaving its distinctive mark wherever it happens to alight. |
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He restates the theme in octaves and floats it away over his own restatement, like a ghost score. |
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The story is a gothic ghost story set amid the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War. |
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They thought He was a ghost, a phantasm, an apparition, a spirit, anything except their Master. |
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The ghost of slavery is built into our legal language and holds our prison system in its grip. |
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One of the most famous ghost sightings was by a six-year-old girl woken by scratching noises. |
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Maybe it's because of who my mother was, or maybe it's because of that ghost I've seen walking. |
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It is the latter-day ghost of America's racist past that won't go away. |
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Only then can the right potion be discovered to exorcize the ghost of Romney for good. |
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Working with ghost writer Wensley Clarkson, Merritt tells his story exactly as it happened to him, with only the argot of the East End edited out. |
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Whaling stations were set up on Spitzbergen, which teemed with life during the whaling season, reverting to a ghost town once the whalers had left. |
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As split second shots of her shoot across the screen, we see an enigmatic, dark-haired figure whisked to and fro before our eyes, like a lost ghost in the machine. |
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Along this sky-high route, nearly every 19th-century saloon or historic hotel has a ghost story to tell. |
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In honor of All Hallows' Eve, I would like to bring you a ghost story. |
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Now, she says, her coworkers are actively pranking each other and blaming it on the ghost. |
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Kay's face turned pale white, so white that she looked like a ghost. |
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Mick said there were stories of various attempts to lay the ghost. |
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The well, ghost or no ghost, is certainly a piece of history with a bold presence. |
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When one of the narrators in a novel is the ghost of a girl who fell to her death in a dumb waiter, you know it's not going to be an ordinary read. |
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While the ghost of default stalks the battlements, he dithers and spouts soliloquies. |
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Perhaps incorporating the brand in staffing will lay the ghost to rest. |
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He let out a little yowl and looked at me like he'd seen a ghost. |
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She became a shadow of her former self, like a ghost, an apparition that makes the same trip every day unable to finish it, bound to start it all over again. |
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As a ghost, Brie watches her friends throw souvenirs from her traitorous boyfriend into a beach bonfire. |
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Carrillo said the maid described the ghost as a handsome Hispanic man in his 50s who wore a cowboy hat, a brown coat, and jeans. |
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Is it really a ghost story, or is it instead a potent psychological exploration of a Victorian woman's battle with the demons of her own repressed sexuality? |
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As Monday turned to Tuesday morning, five hostages had escaped and the Central Business District had turned into a ghost town. |
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As long as it persists, Japan will never lay the ghost of its past. |
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Whatever he became in that no-man's land he was a ghost, invisible as air. |
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Finally, the same irony that wandered the killing fields of the Sudan, like the ghost of murdered rationality, has returned to haunt the ruins of Iraq. |
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As supplied by the factory, the Crossfire comes with a detachable, ghost ring aperture rear sight that is adjustable for windage with the help of a screwdriver. |
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Alongside the ghost cruise and the many ghost walks, tours of the cellar have started at the Treasurer's House, where Harry Martindale famously saw the Roman legionnaires. |
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It is as hard for a man to escape assassination as it is to lay a ghost. |
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Her face turned an achromic color, as if she had seen a ghost. |
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First, the ghost of his departed partner, Jacob Marley, comes calling, his face emerging from the doorknob. |
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A virtual passenger four years ago against France following pre-match convulsions, the 25-year-old was clearly a man who had laid a ghost to rest. |
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For so much of the Harry Potter series, Voldemort was the ghost story, but Dolores Umbridge was the actual ghost. |
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The children's mother was worried that the spine-chilling ghost film would give them nightmares. |
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I remember, about five years ago, I was greatly annoyed by a ghost, while doing a job of fencing in the bush between here and Perth. |
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The hens were my witness to the ghost. They set up the sort of fuss and panic you hear when a snake enters the chookhouse late at night. |
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He was deader than a dead dog's bone buried down a blind alley off a dead-end street in a ghost town. Man, he was dead. |
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Death is not unknown to him, but she has perished And her errand ghost wanders through the night. |
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Diaz was gonna take the nodes for himself and ghost me. He was gonna leave you out here alone. |
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This may come as a shock to you, Johns, but I didn't ghost your son. He seemed set on killin' himself. |
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Plan was to clean the bank, ghost the mercs, break wide through the tunnel. |
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Officers in a ghost car were doing speed enforcement near 82 Street and 132 Avenue when a white 1995 Ford Contour sped by. |
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The committee is asking Metro Council to tack new restrictions onto Metro licences, including... an expanded ghost car program. |
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They are the ghost kings of the high country, more cautious and wary than deer, and more difficult to track. |
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The Swedish experts claimed that some 20 percent of the ghost rocket reports appeared to be neither aircraft nor natural phenomena. |
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But McCartney, 50, is hardly ready to give up the ghost of his creative past. |
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According to local legend, a ghost has haunted the mansion for two hundred years. |
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In 1709, Rowe passed down a tradition that Shakespeare played the ghost of Hamlet's father. |
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In English folklore, Herne the Hunter is a ghost associated with Windsor Forest and Great Park in the English county of Berkshire. |
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However, other elements of the tale are unusual for other ghost stories of Shakespeare's era. |
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That night on the rampart, the ghost appears to Hamlet, telling the prince that he was murdered by Claudius and demanding that Hamlet avenge him. |
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Unable to see or hear the ghost herself, Gertrude takes Hamlet's conversation with it as further evidence of madness. |
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The ghost describes himself as being in purgatory, and as dying without last rites. |
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Baum would later recount the actual story in an article, but the short story is told from the point of view of the actor playing the ghost. |
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Eileen Herlie repeated her role from Olivier's film version as the Queen, and the voice of Gielgud was heard as the ghost. |
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Macbeth raves fearfully, startling his guests, as the ghost is only visible to himself. |
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The ghost departs and returns once more, causing the same riotous anger and fear in Macbeth. |
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In Shakespeare's script, the actor playing Banquo must enter the stage as a ghost. |
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Owen Wingrave was based, like The Turn of the Screw, on a ghost story by Henry James. |
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Dahl was also a huge fan of ghost stories and claimed that Trolls by Jonas Lie was one of the finest ghost stories ever written. |
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There is a legend that the Cuillins are haunted by the ghost of an outlaw called MacRaing. |
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Below me, through the opalescent surface, I saw the white ghost of the Cessna. |
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Recently abandoned cities or cities whose location was never in question might be referred to as ruins or ghost towns. |
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Elpenor's ghost told Odysseus to bury his body, which Odysseus promised to do. |
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Drift nets lost or abandoned at sea due to storms causing strong currents, accidental loss, or purposeful discard become ghost nets. |
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Synthetic nets are resistant to rot or breakdown, therefore ghost nets fish indefinitely in the oceans. |
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During the summer holidays, weekly ghost walks are held at Appuldurcombe every Thursday evening. |
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The area is said to be haunted by various ghosts and is a popular stop for ghost tourists. |
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Sometimes the structures are still easily accessible, such as in a ghost town, and these may become tourist attractions. |
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Some places that have the appearance of a ghost town, however, may still be defined as populated places by government entities. |
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Some communities, Willow Creek for example, completely vanished while others went from boomtowns to ghost towns. |
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Earlier you mentioned a ghost, a revenant with which we may contaminate the Emperor. |
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On clear nights when the moon was full, she waited for its shining revenant ghost. |
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The River Goyt is reputedly haunted by the ghost of a girl whose Royalist lover drowned in the river. |
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During the hallucinogenic high, any characters who have committed significant sins are hunted by the headless ghost. |
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Their existence is impossible to falsify, and ghost hunting has been classified as pseudoscience. |
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Also related is the concept of a fetch, the visible ghost or spirit of a person yet alive. |
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The appearance of a ghost has often been regarded as an omen or portent of death. |
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Plutarch, in the 1st century AD, described the haunting of the baths at Chaeronea by the ghost of a murdered man. |
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This account by Lucian notes something about the popular classical expectation of how a ghost should look. |
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The soul of a dead person would divulge their mission, while a demonic ghost would be banished at the sound of the Holy Name. |
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From the medieval period an apparition of a ghost is recorded from 1211, at the time of the Albigensian Crusade. |
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Even it is believed that other animals and creatures can also be turned into ghost after their death. |
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The most feared spirit in Thailand is Phi Tai Hong, the ghost of a person who has died suddenly of a violent death. |
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When a human dies, after a period of uncertainty they may enter the ghost world. |
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Some ghost concepts such as the female vampires Pontianak and Penanggalan are shared throughout the region. |
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After death, a person's ghost normally traveled to the sky world or the underworld, but some could stay on earth. |
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Many Chinese ghost beliefs have been accepted by neighboring cultures, notably Japan and southeast Asia. |
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The ghost story is ubiquitous across all cultures from oral folktales to works of literature. |
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While ghost stories are often explicitly meant to be scary, they have been written to serve all sorts of purposes, from comedy to morality tales. |
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Belief in ghosts is found in all cultures around the world, and thus ghost stories may be passed down orally or in written form. |
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In English Renaissance theater, ghosts were often depicted in the garb of the living and even in armor, as with the ghost of Hamlet's father. |
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Classic ghost stories were influenced by the gothic fiction tradition, and contain elements of folklore and psychology. |
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Indian ghost movies are popular not just in India, but in the Middle East, Africa, South East Asia, and other parts of the world. |
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The ghost hypnotized them, and they wandered into the mire, fell through the ice, and were sucked into the thick bog. |
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As opposed to traditional ghost stories, Gatiss's plot focused on more contemporary horrors, conspiracy theories and genetic modification. |
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The ghost of Mary Whiddon is said to haunt Whiddon Park House, 2 miles outside the town. |
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He's haunted, she thought. And from the look of things, this is one ghost that even our little Scooby Gang might have trouble getting rid of. |
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Some people believe that the ghost of an old sea captain haunts the beach. |
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The ghost of Al Davis has played Nevada like a streetcorner hooker, schmoozing, seducing, then stealing the working girl's purse. |
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Being a social climber was more of a time burglar than having a ghost twin sister. |
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Whacked-out monsters litter the liner at every turn, looking great in 3D, and take a fair old battering before giving up the ghost. |
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And they battle it out with ghost hunter Bill Pullman in the old dark house, Whipstaff Manor. |
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Guinness exhumes the ghost of Christmas past for its festive ad, via a jingly cover of Bing Crosby's ode to difficult travel conditions. |
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Inflammatory cells as well as ghost, or shadow, cells formed by the keratinization of basaloid cells, are sometimes seen. |
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Harding wants to expel the ghost of Theory so that other, more performance-friendly theories of the avant-gardes might thrive. |
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But by 1989 even Mikhail Gorbachev had basically given up the ghost of Communism, and after Hall badmouthed him the Soviet leader cut off the American leader's allowance. |
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The Premiership-bound Yorkshiremen battled back from 10 points down at the interval, then saw centre Stephen Ward ghost in to put Exeter back in front seven minutes from time. |
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Whacked-out monsters litter the liner at every turn, looking fiendishly and deathly great in 3D, and take a fair old battering before giving up the ghost. |
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Mammals are predominantly small and nocturnal, and many are in decline, such as the ghost bat, or thought to be extinct, such as the boodie, wambenger and Tunney's rat. |
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The ghost of Henry Skinner is being blamed by staff for knocking over glasses, flinging beer mats and causing havoc at Temple Street's Trocadero, left. |
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Popularised in such films as the 1984 comedy Ghostbusters, ghost hunting became a hobby for many who formed ghost hunting societies to explore reportedly haunted places. |
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The annual ghost festival is celebrated by Chinese around the world. |
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The most notable reference is in the First Book of Samuel, in which a disguised King Saul has the Witch of Endor summon the spirit or ghost of Samuel. |
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He followed the ghost outside where it indicated a spot on the ground. |
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The ancient Romans believed a ghost could be used to exact revenge on an enemy by scratching a curse on a piece of lead or pottery and placing it into a grave. |
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The premier ghost story writer of the 19th century was Sheridan Le Fanu. |
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A vein of anthracite that caught fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania in 1962 has been burning ever since, turning the once thriving borough into a ghost town. |
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Most of the recordings are of inhabitants discussing their local industry, but one of the recordings, that at Skelmanthorpe in West Yorkshire, discussed a sighting of a ghost. |
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One of the ghost towns is Mineral de Pozos in the northeast of the state. |
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The Ruta de Aventura connects ghost towns and abandoned mines with natural areas for hiking, mountain biking and ATV as well as other extreme sports such as paragliding. |
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Logashkino and Nordvik were abandoned and are now ghost towns. |
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On his return home, he stopped for a while in Marrakech, which was almost a ghost town following the recent plague and the transfer of the capital to Fez. |
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Few details are available about the ghost, but it is generally believed that she committed some terrible misdeed in the past and now her spirit must roam the earth in penance. |
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It is said that the area is haunted by the ghost of the White Lady. |
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James wrote highly regarded ghost stories in contemporary settings. |
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The sheer volume of her work and the speed with which it was produced led to rumours that Blyton employed an army of ghost writers, a charge she vigorously denied. |
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Television versions, however, have often taken the third approach of leaving Banquo invisible to viewers, thereby portraying Banquo's ghost as merely Macbeth's delusion. |
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In a rage, Hamlet brutally insults his mother for her apparent ignorance of Claudius's villainy, but the ghost enters and reprimands Hamlet for his inaction and harsh words. |
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Learning of the ghost from Horatio, Hamlet resolves to see it himself. |
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Set in Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is called to wreak upon his uncle, Claudius, by the ghost of Hamlet's father, King Hamlet. |
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The last known manifestation of the ghost was over ten years ago. |
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In the 20th century, further details were added to Herne's legend, including the idea that his ghost appears shortly before national disasters and the deaths of kings. |
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I wrote my first story about the ghost of a horse leaping from a cascade of flame just after the leonids had been more torrential than men had remembered them for centuries. |
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At last Vikramaditya called to his aid Vetal, the great ghost king. |
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Everyone believed that the ghost of an old lady haunted the crypt. |
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