Ya true cemetries are creepyy ... but somehow i feel more than real ghosts and spirits, its the fear of encountering one makes us more scared. The fear is more dangerous than a real experience actually. There are so many who dun really die out of a ghostly encounter but of just merely FEAR. its funny but very true.
I just heard this story from my friend. My friend's aunt(her mum's younger sister) had passed away.. it was in an accident. she was very young actually .. abt 30+
so they were returning after the hindu burning ritual. n it is said also that for hindus after u hv burnt the body and u are living the place, u should not turn back to look. It's inauspicious.
Apparently her aunt's mother, meaning her grandmother, was in a shock of her daughter's death and was miserably sad. And after her the burning ritual, when they were returning back home, her grandmum could literally hear her daughter's voice calling from behind and her grandmother couldn't take it and looked back, only to see there was noone calling her.
But for abt 1 month or so, my friend's grandmother was behaving very unnatural everyday. They even heard her talking to herself. When they asked her who she was talking to. She said she was talking to her younger daughter( my friend's aunt who passed away). When she served dinner, she put a plate for her aunt as well. It was bad for her health also. Probably she was traumatized at her daughter's death and cudnt get over the fact her daughter is no more. But it was getting very unnatural day by day. So they had to call some priests and stuff.. and doctors etc.. only after another month tht she became better.
So ya, tht's why they say never turn back to look after you are done with the burning ritual. They say the spirit of that person becomes restless to see the pain of their loved ones and tries to come back to live with them.
Edited by glamourous - 17 years ago
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