Episodios

  • 7. Depiction in the arts - Ghosts #7

    7. Depiction in the arts - Ghosts #7
    Jul 7 2025
    7. Depiction in the arts - Ghosts #7
    Ghosts are prominent in story-telling of various nations. The ghost story is ubiquitous across all cultures from oral folktales to works of literature. 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. Ghosts often appear in the narrative as sentinels or prophets of things to come. 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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    8 m
  • 6. By culture - Ghosts #6

    6. By culture - Ghosts #6
    Jul 5 2025
    6. By culture - Ghosts #6
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    9 m
  • 5. By religion - Ghosts #5

    5. By religion - Ghosts #5
    Jul 5 2025
    5. By religion - Ghosts #5
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    10 m
  • 4. European Renaissance to Romanticism - Ghosts #4

    4. European Renaissance to Romanticism - Ghosts #4
    Jul 5 2025
    4. European Renaissance to Romanticism - Ghosts #4
    Renaissance magic took a revived interest in the occult, including necromancy. In the era of the Reformation and Counter Reformation, there was frequently a backlash against unwholesome interest in the dark arts, typified by writers such as Thomas Erastus. The Swiss Reformed pastor Ludwig Lavater supplied one of the most frequently reprinted books of the period with his Of Ghosts and Spirits Walking By Night.
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    8 m
  • 3. History - Ghosts #3

    3. History - Ghosts #3
    Jul 5 2025
    3. History - Ghosts #3
    There are many references to ghosts in Mesopotamian religions – the religions of Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, and other early states in Mesopotamia. Traces of these beliefs survive in the later Abrahamic religions that came to dominate the region. The concept of ghosts may predate many belief systems.
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    9 m
  • 2. Typology - Ghosts #2

    2. Typology - Ghosts #2
    Jul 5 2025
    2. Typology - Ghosts #2
    A notion of the transcendent, supernatural, or numinous, usually involving entities like ghosts, demons, or deities, is a cultural universal. In pre-literate folk religions, these beliefs are often summarized under animism and ancestor worship. Some people believe the ghost or spirit never leaves Earth until there is no-one left to remember the one who died.
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    5 m
  • 1. Ghosts #1

    1. Ghosts #1
    Jul 5 2025
    1. Ghosts #1
    In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or non-human animal that is believed by some people to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely, from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes to realistic, lifelike forms. The deliberate attempt to contact the spirit of a deceased person is known as necromancy, or in spiritism as a séance. Other terms associated with it are apparition, haunt, haint, phantom, poltergeist, shade, specter, spirit, spook, wraith, demon, and ghoul.
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    7 m