Ghosts in Oriental Adventures
- Acheri - The spirits of girls who died as a result of murder, accident, or plague.
- Akikage - The undead spirit of a ninja assassin who died while stalking an important victim.
- Bhut - Bhuts are vicious, flesh-eating ghosts most commonly formed from the spirits of those who are executed, commit suicide, or die accidentally, and do not receive proper funeral rites.
- Chu-u - A legless spirit of a mortal who was neither virtuous enough to be rewarded nor wicked enough to be punished in the afterlife. It wanders in agony seeking others to testify on its behalf to the judges of the dead.
- Con-tinh - The spirit of a maiden who died before her time—usually as the result of an illicit love affair that ends in murder. Its spirit is bound to a single fruit tree.
- Hanging Ghost - Spirits of those who committed suicide, who try to trick others into doing so via illusions.
- Kuei - A kuei, or phii ha, is the spirit of a humanoid that died by violence unavenged or with a purpose unfulfilled.
- Ubume - The "mourning ones" are the spirits of women who have died in childbirth or while pregnant. A ubume cannot rest until its child is "born" via a kind soul agreeing to hold the ghostly child.
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