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    In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the author raises a great many questions, broaching subjects such as suicide, the contrast between traditional and modern religion, and a complicated mother/son relationship that seems to waver between acceptable and possibly Oedipal. The question that most connects the others is the question of Hamlet’s sanity- was he sane all along, or was his “antic disposition” (I.v.173) a ruse that ultimately deceived not only the people around him, but his own mind as well? The…

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    Aristotle’s overview of the soul is that every living natural body that has life providing self-nourishment, growth and decay has a soul. The living natural body refers to a substance that is potential for life such as a human being, animals, and plants. The soul then is the actuality providing knowledge to the natural body. In a human, animal or plant it is the soul what provides the bodies reasoning, direction, perception, desire, locomotion and comprehension. According to Aristotle the body…

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    Annie Wilson Letters

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    her to whether she liked it or not, and the spirits had no consideration of her schedule or her private life. When they decided to communicate she had little choice but to listen. Ignoring them only ever made it worse, giving her terrible headaches, nosebleeds, sometimes vomiting blood or in the really bad cases, making her hallucinate. You can return a gift, she always said, but once your eyes are open, you cannot simply stop seeing.…

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    Short Story On St. Ebott

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    A human facing back towards a giant hole in the ground of a cave of a mountain titled Mt.Ebott.They took a deep breath hesitating, clutching their pale sweater"....hh.." Their breath wavering quietly, body numb not sure if this was really the right answer to escape all this.Tears form in the corner of their eyes streaming down the cheeks to fall off the chin , thinking and thinking making them light headed. They thought about all the reasons why they shouldn't do this but those thoughts were…

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    If you are interested in becoming a ghost hunter, it is important that you know how to identify the signs of a demonic haunting in the real life haunted houses that you will investigate. Throughout the history of ghost investigations, there have been several scary ghost video clips, real photographs of ghosts, and even ghost sounds recorded that seem to reflect that of a demonic haunting. Popular televised series such as the Ghost Hunters TV show and even movies such as "Paranormal Activity"…

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    Sleep Paralysis

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    Ghost are an apparition of a dead person that is believed to appear or manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image. A ghost is thought of as a disembodied soul, a soul of a dead person inhabiting the world. One case of ghosts was with a Greek philosopher Athenodoros Cananites, who saw a haunted house and started watching it at night since he was interested in what was going on. He said one night an old man, bound at the feet and hands with rattling chains, appeared to him and beckoned…

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    The idea of vengeful spirits has caused both a spark of interest and controversy that has remained ablaze over hundreds of years, inspiring both the media and everyday customs with it’s awe-inducing nature. Bloody Mary proves quite an infamous tale among Western civilizations, portraying the spirit of an angry and powerful woman, the details of who vary among different regions, making the true nature of this ghost unclear. Japanese culture, though, has a range of popular lore that all sprout…

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    In David Tennant’s 2009 film of Hamlet, he is bordering insanity in his first soliloquy, expressing a number of emotions within a small period of time. The scene opens with Hamlet walking into a dark room looking up at the ceiling as if talking to god directly wishing that he could end it all but knowing that he could not do such a thing. He then becomes weak, falling to his knees in the middle of the room crying as if he was a child. The audience can almost feel his emotions off-screen as he…

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    Female Ghost

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    with mythology and cultural superstitions both in past and present. Japan is one of the countries where belief in ghosts and demons has been deep-rooted. According to “Buddhism and Japanese Shinto, the Japanese believe that they are surrounded by spirits all the time”(footnote1). The existence of this inexplicable phenomena can arouse a fear in humankind because we have no way of understanding it. Many cultures around the world believe that if the soul of the dead…

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    Mashave Spirits

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    Spirit possession Kazembe found that in order to commune with the spirits of their ancestors, as well as with non-human spirits, the Shona rely on spirit mediums who the spirits can possess. This process of spirit possession and communication can be complicated. "Different spirits may compete to possess one medium, and each such spirit may have its own pantheon of mashave spirits," wrote Kazembe. "Mashave are not spirits of dead people. No one knows their origin. They are believed to have…

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