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

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

See Also

Links and References

  1. Constantine: "The Darkness Beneath"
  2. DC's Legends of Tomorrow: "Hell No, Dolly"
  3. Sandman (Volume 2) #64
  4. 4.0 4.1 The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives #1
  5. Vertigo Jam #1
  6. Doom Patrol: "Sex Patrol"
  7. Arrow: "Green Arrow"