GHOSTS

Ghost, soul or specter of dead person capable of returning to world of the living; belief in ghosts is based on notion that body and spirit are separable and spirit may live on after body’s death; ghosts thought to take many forms, sometimes as vague likeness of deceased or as if still alive; haunting of places or people by ghosts is thought to be connected with spirit’s strong past emotions in life, such as fear or remorse; in many societies funeral rites are believed to prevent spirits from returning to haunt the living; ghost stories are still an important part of folklore world wide, often told with grisly details in dark or gloomy setting.

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WITCHES

Witch derive from Indo-european root, his meaning is to bend or change or do magic/religion. Today, a witch is a woman or a man, who practices a life-affirming, earth-and-nature religion, honoring diviny in female or male aspects and practicing magic. There are many traditions about witches, some traditions are practiced only by women and conced only the divine feminine, the goddess. Today the witchcraft can be see in all the witch's practices: spellcasting, divination ("fortune telling"), meditation, herbalism, ritual and ritual drama, singing and dancing to raise energy, healing clairvoyance and other psychism, creative mythology, and more.

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MONSTERS

The monsters, human and not human, are very popular with horror fiction. The favourite monster is that created by Victor Frankestein in Mary Shelley's novel (1818). Hollywood discovered Frankestein in 1931. The movie version and its sequels are in contrast to Shelley's intent, because she tells a moral tale about rejection and suffering. The monster is good until spurned by the rest of humanity. Many films have a monstre as main character, for example "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde".

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VAMPIRES

Much Horror literature is grounded in superstition, fear of demons and the dread of death. No single tale brings all of these elements togheter so well as the vampire legend, an ancied folk superstition. The vampire is described as undead, an entombed individual who rises each night to feed on the blood of the living. In literature its best representation is "Dracula" (1897) by Bram Stoker. The legend was retold in "Interview with the vampire" (1976) by Anne Rice. The dracula's story was eagerly taken up by Hollywood in the 1931 film that starred Bela Lugosi, and numerous movies on the theme have been made since.

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ZOMBIES

Between the vampires and the ghosts are creatures called the living dead and zombies who return from the grave to devour the living. Stories about the devil and lesser demons date at least as far back as Middle Ages, when the Christians church tried to instill fear in the hearts of believers about the consequences of sin. In 20^th century literature the devil plays a central role in William Blatty's novel "The Exorcist" (1971) and Ira Levin's novel of Satanism, "Rosemary's Baby" (1967).

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WEREWOLVES

In popular superstition, they are men who change into wolflike creatures at night and devour or kill human beings. The word itself means "man-wolf" and is derived from Old English words: wer, meaning man, and wulf, meaning wolf. Tales of werewolves have been told since ancient Greece and Rome, and such folklore exist on all continents. In places where wolves are not common, other fierce animals tigers, lions, bears, or hyenan replace them. Like the vampire, the werewolf has become a popular horror theme in motion pictures. Werewolves are believed to turn into vampires after death.

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