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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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