Why Do Ghosts Appear Only At Night: Life after Death
Why Do Ghosts Appear Only At Night: Life after Death
Why do ghosts appear only at night? Anthropologists answered it with the fact that the natives could not distinguish dreams and real life; when they dreamed of their dead persons, they believed the dead friends were still alive somewhere. Besides, the starlight is believed as the campfire lit by those dead souls from the distance (Frazer, 1911).
The attempt to console the feeling of losing loved ones established the various explanations and thus, practices regarding life after death. Rituals and customs are the reflections of what beliefs were established; for they reflected what the person genuinely put his/her faith in. For instance, the Aborigines in Australia bury their dead friends in a light of the belief of retaining souls after death as well as the idea of reincarnation.
In Chinese-influenced culture in Thailand, for Chinese descendents in Thailand would keep their ancestors ashes after the crematory. Every year, the relatives gather on Qīngmíngjié(清明節) Day at the place where they keep the ashes to worship the ancestors with food (which they consume later after the gathering) and even burn necessities for the ancestors use (Wikipedia, 2008).. Some may argue that burning or burying the property of the dead entails an economic loss. Well, the nuclear testing and civil war entails much more economic and environmental loss than this little portion of dead mens properties. Moreover, you can always dig them up should you find historical value in particular mens grave.
In Central Australia, worshipping ancestors has grown in regard to the mythical ancestor of the Wolluunqua clan in the Warranmunga tribe. The clan believed that their forefather was the Wollunqua. The Wollunqua is a gigantic snake which is supposed to haunt the waters of certain lonely pool. This mythical serpent is never reborn in human form but lives forever in the pool. The natives worship him with prayers and rituals. These magical rites are performed and served as means to gather the whole tribe, share food, water and sunshine (Frazer, 1911).
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