Afterlife

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Feb 19, 20223 min read

Afterpants: Underthings (Special Edition: Enma)

For today's ghost...I chose, not a category or type of ghost but perhaps the most famous ghost of them all. Enma! Who's Enma? Well, the...

Feb 17, 20221 min read

Afterpants: Underthings (Bhoots)

Today's lovely ghosts are called Bhoots or Bhuta (As a side note: I'm not an etymologist but it does strike me that the second name is...

Feb 17, 20221 min read

Afterpants: Undemons (Aeriae Potestates (Aerial Powers))

In the last episode I talked about Aerial Devils The Aeriae Potestates are apparently a specific type of these demons. Rather than...

Feb 17, 20221 min read

Afterpants: Afterlives (The Journey to afterlife)

Today's storytelling trope is "The journey to the afterlife" This is the idea that there is space between the living world and whatever...

Feb 7, 20221 min read

Afterpants: Undemons (Aerial Devils!)

Today's Undemons are called "Aerial Devils!" I normally tend to shy away from western folklore, but these guys caught my interest....

Jan 29, 20221 min read

Afterpants: Underthings (Announcement)

Welcome to my new series of all things supernatural and all things underpants! The series title (again) is a play on slang terms for...

Jan 11, 20224 min read

Afterpants: Afterlives (Hell)

Well it's been a few days since my last post and holee shyt has it gotten cold here. Anyway, I debated as to whether I should do a post...

Dec 17, 20211 min read

Afterpants: Afterlives (Ghost reunion AND Go into the light)

I'll be covering two afterlife story tropes today. The first is "ghost reunion ending" wherein several deceased characters in stories...

Dec 13, 20211 min read

Afterpants: Afterlives (Gods of the dead)

Today's story trope is "Gods of the dead". This is the idea that there are entities which are tasked with managing the afterlife and...

Dec 5, 20211 min read

Afterpants: Undemons (Rakshasas)

Today's Undemons are Rakshasas. Coming to you from the terrible Indian underworld (or the island of Lanka) they come in all shapes and...

Dec 5, 20211 min read

Afterpants: Afterlives (mashup)

There are several entries on the tvtropes list today that I just found relatively boring. I will mention them here w/ a brief synopsis;...

Nov 22, 20211 min read

Afterpants: Afterlives (Defector from paradise)

Today's afterlife trope is "defector from paradise" . This is the idea that there is a permanent place where one goes after they die,...

Nov 22, 20211 min read

Afterpants: Undemons (Empousai)

Hailing from the Greek underworld, empousai (kinda like onryo) are the vengeful, vampiric, returned spirits of the dead. It seems that...

Nov 19, 20211 min read

Afterpants: Afterlives (Celestial Bureaucracy)

The next on tvtropes' list was "celebrities hang out in heaven" but I feel like this not very interesting and only used as a comedic...

Nov 19, 20211 min read

Afterpants: Undemons (Srin Po)

Today's Undemons are a classic case of the demonization of a previous 'pagan' faith by a dominant paradigm; in this case, Buddhism. The...

Nov 15, 20211 min read

Afterpants: Undemons (kallikantzaros)

Todays Undemons are called "kallikantzaros" These are underworld residents that get to "visit" our world for a period of time at the end...

Nov 15, 20211 min read

Afterpants: Afterlives (Otherworld Backup)

Today's afterlife trope is "Backup from the other world" This is the idea that a character in a story receives direct assistance from...

Nov 9, 20211 min read

Afterpants: Afterlives (Ascension)

Today's story trope about the afterlife is: "Ascension to a higher plane" This is the idea that a person (but not ALL people) become...

Nov 9, 20211 min read

Afterpants: Undemons (The Furies)

Today's Undemons are; The Furies! Coming at you from Ancient Greece's underworld, The Furies have many names; The Dirae (The Terrible...

Nov 7, 20211 min read

Afterpants: Afterlives (Artificial Afterlife)

Today's afterlife trope is "Artificial Afterlife" This is the idea that humans can somehow build their own afterlife if the ones they've...

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