:: SPIRITS ::

[The Preceptor]

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A spirit is an entity whose natural state of existence is in the spiritual plane and whose natural form is incorporeal (meaning bodiless or immaterial). These beings can affect the physical plane, taking on different forms depending on what type of creatures they are.

Ghosts
A ghost is some part of a dead person that has remained in the world of the living. It can be their soul still attached to the physical plane, a powerful emotion taking the form of a ghostly entity, or an echo – a single event being replayed over and over again. It is possible for a ghost to take possession of a living person, or an object. It is also possible for them to affect electrical and battery operated appliances. Ghosts can move objects and manifest, appearing just as they looked at the moment of their deaths. Most of the time, ghosts are taken to their afterlife destination by another entity, such as a Reaper, however, sometimes a more aggressive approach is needed and their physical remains must be properly laid to rest. This requires one to “salt and burn” their bones. Salting and burning is slang for covering a ghost’s remains with rock salt and gasoline and lighting them on fire to purify and cleanse them. In some cases, a spirit is attached to an object, and salting and burning their bones is not enough to force them to cross over. In cases like these, the object they’re attached to must also be destroyed. All ghosts are weakened and temporarily dispelled by iron, and they cannot cross rock salt barriers. Some are harmed by rock salt ammunition, but it will not dispel all ghosts.

Reapers
Reapers are entities whose sole purpose is to guide lost souls to their proper destinations. They are not malevolent beings, although some people see them as being “bad” creatures due to the nature of their jobs. Reapers are not aligned with Heaven or Hell and they are truly neutral beings. In their natural form, they are invisible to most beings, but they can appear as humans if they choose to. All reapers can teleport. They can be trapped using sigils, which appear to be altered Devil’s Traps, and in corporeal (or material) form, they can be killed. Reapers can also be possessed by some demons, and controlled by some spells.

Other Types of Spirits

• Banshees: Death omens that typically appear in the form of a beautiful woman dressed in white; can become independent and harm others; typically seen near rivers; some can be used for or controlled by spells and magic; also known as a “woman in white”.
  
• Black Dogs: Death omens that typically appear at night in the form of black dogs with glowing red eyes; can appear and disappear at will; sometimes have no head or multiple heads; can change their size and appearance; often seen on or near roads, bridges, footpaths, crossroads, gates, doors, stairs, hallways and corridors, and graveyards.
  
• Buru Buru: Ghosts of people who died feeling overwhelmingly afraid; they are manifestations of fear and spread the emotion like a sickness.
  -Ghost Sickness
  
• Death Echoes: A ghost that reenacts its own death over and over again in a constant loop.
  
• Doppelganger: A ghostly double of a living person; can sometimes be a death omen.
  
• Phantoms: An unseen, unknown, and inhuman being that attacks people, leaving them with a disturbing fear of something unknown.
  
• Poltergeists: Mischievous, malevolent spirits.