Finucane shows examples of the suicide ghost motif in his work Ghosts: Appearances of the Dead & Cultural Transformation, where he examines ghostlore from its early beginnings of its written record to the twentieth century. One example of this motif is a story set in the 1500s where a woman is haunted by the ghost of her stepmother who committed suicide by drowning herself. The woman attempted to ignore the spirit, before finally hearing her stepmothers plea for pilgrimage for her soul as she “drowned herself of unsound mind” (103). This story exemplifies the suicide ghost motif and the relation of the internal struggle one can suffer from. In the story, the stepmother was of unsound mind when she drowned herself so she was not automatically damned to hell, which showcases the struggle of mind that people have battled for many centuries. The story can relate to mental illness that plagues many people in from beginning in the early ages. Thus, this story relates to the human constant of internal turmoil or mental illness that transcends across the
Finucane shows examples of the suicide ghost motif in his work Ghosts: Appearances of the Dead & Cultural Transformation, where he examines ghostlore from its early beginnings of its written record to the twentieth century. One example of this motif is a story set in the 1500s where a woman is haunted by the ghost of her stepmother who committed suicide by drowning herself. The woman attempted to ignore the spirit, before finally hearing her stepmothers plea for pilgrimage for her soul as she “drowned herself of unsound mind” (103). This story exemplifies the suicide ghost motif and the relation of the internal struggle one can suffer from. In the story, the stepmother was of unsound mind when she drowned herself so she was not automatically damned to hell, which showcases the struggle of mind that people have battled for many centuries. The story can relate to mental illness that plagues many people in from beginning in the early ages. Thus, this story relates to the human constant of internal turmoil or mental illness that transcends across the