The Return of the Dead: Ghosts, Ancestors, & the Transparent Veil of the Pagan Mind

Ghost stories from the past originated from the idea of a veil between the world of the living and of afterlife. These undead served both as threats to and guardians of the social order. Ghosts were originally corporeal: ghouls and revenants and the like. But medieval Christianity turned them into incorporeal creatures: shades and phantoms and ghosts. This removed the social order aspect of the ghosts and allowed Christian leaders to decree undead as illusions of the work of Satan. The Return of the Dead will reveal to you an ancient body of tradition and belief than still exists today.

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