7. Depiction in the arts - Ghosts #7

07/07/2025 8 min
7. Depiction in the arts - Ghosts #7

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7. Depiction in the arts - Ghosts #7Ghosts are prominent in story-telling of various nations. The ghost story is ubiquitous across all cultures from oral folktales to works of literature. While ghost stories are often explicitly meant to be scary, they have been written to serve all sorts of purposes, from comedy to morality tales. Ghosts often appear in the narrative as sentinels or prophets of things to come. Belief in ghosts is found in all cultures around the world, and thus ghost stories may be passed down orally or in written form.