Ghosts
History
Types
- Coblynau: Coblynau are spirits of dead miners that inhabit mines, knocking on the walls to warn the miners of danger.[1]
- Banshees: Irish spirits of deceased women characterized by very powerful sonic screams that are generally used as an omen of imminent death.
- Dybbuks: Dybbuks are a type of malevolent spirits from Jewish mythology.[2]
- Poltergeists[citation needed]
- Dream Ghosts[3]
- Thai Ghosts[4]
- The Krasue[4]: A Thai spirit possessing the face of a beautiful woman, but underneath revealing only exposed organs spattered with fresh blood, is a cursed spirit condemned to try every night to satiate its eternal hunger for flesh, whether animal or human.
- Sex Ghosts[5][6]
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Unique Physiology
- Possession: Ghosts has the ability to possess other living creatures. While doing this, they maintains full control over his selected target, and can even speak through them.
- Invisibility: They cannot be visibly perceived by other human beings. This is an automatic ability, and one that Ghosts has no control over.
- Intangibility: They can pass through anything and everything. This is an automatic ability, and one that Ghosts also has no control over.
- Flight/Dimensional Travel: They possesses the ability to fly between the lands of the living and the lands of the dead.
Weaknesses
- No Physical Body
- Power Limitation: The health and nature of whichever host body they are possessing at the moment may place certain physical limitations on their abilities.
- Vulnerability to Nth Metal: Nth metal, among its other mystical properties, is usually able to make physical contact with ghosts.[citation needed]
Miscellaneous
Representatives:
Notes
- This character or object is an adaptation of Ghost, a character or object in traditional stories. These include, but may not be limited to, religious texts, myth, and/or folklore. More information on the original can be found at Wikipedia.org.
Trivia
- In the Arrowverse continuity, the H.I.V.E. field agents are referred to as Ghosts because of their elusive attitudes.[7]