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fear of ghosts
The fear of ghosts in many human cultures is based on beliefs that some ghosts may be malevolent towards people and dangerous (within the range of all possible attitudes, including mischievous, benign, indifferent, etc.). It is related to fear of the dark.
The fear of ghosts is sometimes referred to as phasmophobia〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Phasmophobia. (n.d.). Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English, Preview Edition )〕 and erroneously spectrophobia, the latter being an established term for fear of mirrors and one's own reflections.
==Typical character==
The fear of ghosts is widespread even in post-industrial societies. Philosopher Peter van Inwagen wrote:〔"God and the Philosophers", edited by Thomas V. Morris (1996) ISBN 0-19-510119-7 (p. 39 )〕
"...I am perfectly aware that the fear of ghosts is contrary to science, reason and religion. If I were sentenced to spend a night alone in a graveyard, <...> I should already know that twigs would snap and the wind moan and that there would be half-seen movements in the darkness. And yet, after I had been frog-marched into the graveyard, I should feel a thrill of fear every time one of these things happened..."
In many traditional accounts, ghosts are often thought to be deceased people looking for vengeance, or imprisoned on earth for bad things they did during life. The appearance of a ghost has often been regarded as an omen or portent of death. Seeing one's own ghostly double or doppelgänger is a related omen of death.〔Christina Hole (1950) ''Haunted England'': 13-27〕
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