Africa •
Madam Koi Koi is the ghost of a female school teacher in African
urban legend who haunts boarding schools after some students caused her death.
Ancient Rome •
Lemures in
Roman mythology are the wandering and vengeful spirits of those not afforded proper burial, funeral rites or affectionate cult by the living.
Ancient Greece •
Keres (Κῆρες), spirits of violent or cruel death in
Greek mythology •
Vrykolakas, a creature similar to a
zombie United Kingdom • The
Green Lady, a restless female spirit said to haunt certain locations in
Scotland such as
Crathes Castle,
Knock Castle (Isle of Skye) and
Ashintully Castle. In some tales she was murdered in a green dress, and then stuffed unceremoniously up the chimney by a servant. It is said that her footsteps can still be heard as she walks the castle in sadness.
Eastern Europe •
Drekavac •
Kukudh •
Lugat •
Moroi •
Strigoi •
Strzyga Jewish culture •
Dybbuk, a malicious spirit that possesses living people
China and Vietnam •
Mogwai, a vengeful ghost or demon in
Chinese mythology •
Nü gui, () a vengeful female ghost of
Chinese folklore. She appears with untied hair. •
Yuan gui (), the spirits of persons who have died wrongful deaths
India •
Chudail (,
Devanagari: चुड़ेल), a female
ghost of
Indian folklore, well known in
North India and
Pakistan. This spirit is said to originate in a woman who died either in childbirth, in pregnancy or during her
menstruation, in a state of
ritual impurity.
Japan •
Onryō, a generic name in Japanese folklore for ghosts (
yūrei) who come back from purgatory for a wrong done to them during their lifetime.
Onryō are mostly women and often manifest themselves in physical rather than spectral form. • , ghosts that have become vengeful spirits at sea. They are mentioned in the
folklore of various areas of Japan. •
Goryō, a certain type of spirits, usually the ghosts of martyrs, from
Japanese mythology •
Kuchisake-onna, the vengeful ghost of a woman mutilated by her husband
Korea •
Gwisin •
Korean virgin ghost Latin America •
Dama Branca, also known as
Mulher de Branco, meaning 'Woman in White' in
Portuguese, is the ghost of a young woman who died of
childbirth or violent causes in
Brazilian mythology. •
Corpo-Seco ('Dried Corpse'), is the ghost of a man who was so evil when alive his soul was rejected by
God and the
Devil and so was cursed to haunt the living as an
undead corpse in Brazilian mythology. •
La Llorona, also known as 'the Weeping Woman'; can be a female spirit from
Mexico who drowned her own children because her husband cheated on her with another woman and subsequently left her. •
La Sayona, a female spirit who believed her husband had an affair with her mother in
Venezuela and
Colombia •
Patasola, a female spirit from
South America that appears as a beautiful woman. She attracts men and lures them to the depths of the rainforest, where she turns into a beast and devours the man. •
Sihuanaba, a female spirit who had an affair and attacks unfaithful men in
El Salvador and
Guatemala •
The Silbón, a young man who killed his father after the father would rape the youth's wife. His grandfather then cursed him to roam the Earth forever with his father's bones, so the youth's ghost kills people if they act like either of the men who hurt him, mostly womanizers and drunks. •
Tulevieja a female spirit from
Panama and
Costa Rica similar to the Llorona from Mexico is a young beautiful woman who is cursed with having to wander and search for the child she abandoned by the river for all eternity. As punishment she was transformed into a hideous beast with bat wings, engorged leaking breasts, hairy inverted talons for legs and feet, a face full of oozing hairy holes, wild matted hair, and wearing an old tule hat.
North America •
Chindi, a vengeful ghost that causes
dust devils in
Navajo mythology Southeast Asia •
Dambir ow, in the mythology of the
Asmat people of western
New Guinea, are ghosts of women who die in labor. Anthropologist
Jan Pouwer writes that they have "frightening looks, a sharp nose, sharp teeth, long nails, and eyes as red as their hair. They take revenge on men by carrying them to the underworld, where they torture them to death with thorns." •
Krasue (), known as
Ap () in
Cambodia, as
Kasu in
Laos, and Palasik, Kuyang, and Leyak in
Indonesia, a nocturnal female spirit of
Southeast Asian folklore •
Phi Tai Hong (), the restless spirit of a person that suffered a violent or cruel death in
Thai folklore •
Phi Tai Thang Klom (ผีตายทั้งกลม), also known as
Phi Tai Thong Klom (ผีตายท้องกลม), a
Thai ghost, is the wrathful spirit of a pregnant woman who committed
suicide after being subsequently betrayed and abandoned by her lover. •
Suanggi, a malevolent spirit in the folklore of the
Maluku Islands,
Indonesia •
Sundel bolong, in Indonesian mythology, is the ghost of a woman who died when she was pregnant and gave birth in her grave so that the baby came out from her back, where she has a large wound. •
Wewe Gombel, a female ghost in Indonesian mythology. It is said that she kidnaps children. ==See also==