Vengeful ghost

• Onryō, a generic name in Japanese folklore for ghosts (yūrei) who come back from purgatory for a wrong done to them during their lifetime. Onryō are mostly women and often manifest themselves in physical rather than spectral form.
  • Funayūrei (船幽霊 or 舟幽霊, lit. "boat spirit"), ghosts that have become vengeful spirits at sea. They are mentioned in the folklore of various areas of Japan.
  • Kuchisake-onna, the vengeful ghost of a woman mutilated by her husband
  • Goryō, a certain type of spirits, usually the ghosts of martyrs, from Japanese mythology^[15]

Latin America

• Dama Branca, also known as Mulher de Branco, meaning 'Woman in White' in Portuguese, is the ghost of a young woman who died of childbirth or violent causes in Brazilian mythology.^[16]
• Corpo-Seco ('Dried Corpse'), is the ghost of a man who was so evil when alive his soul was rejected by God and the Devil and so was cursed to haunt the living as a undead corpse in Brazilian mythology.^[17]
• La Llorona, also known as 'the Weeping Woman'; can be a female spirit from Mexico who drowned her own children because her husband cheated on her with another woman and subsequently left her.
• La Sayona, a female spirit who believed her husband had an affair with her mother in Venezuela and Colombia
• Patasola, a female spirit from South America that appears as a beautiful woman. She attracts men and lures them to the depths of the rainforest, where she turns into a beast and devours the man.
• Sihuanaba, a female spirit who had an affair and attacks unfaithful men in El Salvador and Guatemala
• The Silbón, a young man who killed his father after the father would rape the youth's wife. His grandfather then cursed him to roam the Earth forever with his father's bones, so the youth's ghost kills people if they act like either of the men who hurt him, mostly womanizers and drunks.
• Tulevieja a female spirit of Costa Rica who punishing lustful men and irresponsible fathers.

North America

• Navajo mythology

Southeast Asia

• Dambir ow, in the mythology of the Asmat people of western New Guinea, are ghosts of women who die in labor. Anthropologist Jan Pouwer writes that they have "frightening looks, a sharp nose, sharp teeth, long nails, and eyes as red as their hair. They take revenge on men by carrying them to the underworld, where they torture them to death with thorns."^[18]
• Krasue (Thai: กระสือ), known as Ap (Khmer: អាប) in Cambodia, as Kasu in Laos, and Palasik, Kuyang, and Leyak in Indonesia, a nocturnal female spirit of Southeast Asian folklore
• Phi Tai Hong (Thai: ผีตายโหง), the restless spirit of a person that suffered a violent or cruel death in Thai folklore^[19]
• Thai ghost, is the wrathful spirit of a pregnant woman who committed suicide after being subsequently betrayed and abandoned by her lover.^[20]
• Suanggi, a malevolent spirit in the folklore of the Maluku Islands, Indonesia
• Sundel bolong, in Indonesian mythology, is the ghost of a woman who died when she was pregnant and gave birth in her grave so that the baby came out from her back, where she has a large wound.^[21]
• Wewe Gombel, a female ghost in Indonesian mythology. It is said that she kidnaps children.^[22]

See also

• Ghost
• Ghosts in Chinese culture
• Ghosts in Vietnamese culture
• Hun and po
• Ju-on (franchise)
• Revenant
• Yotsuya Kaidan

References

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7. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 211, translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White
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9. ^ Nu Gui (女鬼) at the anime festival in Shenzhen, China
10. ^ Kong Zhiming (孔志明) (1998). "左傳中的厲鬼問題及其日後之演變 (The ideas of vengeful spirits in the Zuo Zhuan and later developments)" (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
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19. ^ Phi Tai Hong Thai book
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