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===Fear of ghosts=== {{main article|Fear of ghosts}} [[File:Suushi Yurei.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Yūrei]] (Japanese ghost) from the [[Hyakkai Zukan]], {{Circa|1737}}]] While deceased ancestors are [[cultural universal|universally]] regarded as venerable, and often believed to have a continued presence in some form of [[afterlife]], the spirit of a deceased person that persists in the material world (a ghost) is regarded as an unnatural or undesirable state of affairs and the idea of ghosts or [[revenant]]s is associated with a reaction of fear. This is universally the case in pre-modern folk cultures, but fear of ghosts also remains an integral aspect of the modern [[ghost story]], [[Gothic horror]], and other [[horror fiction]] dealing with the supernatural.
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