A peep into the world of ghosts!

hi cheeniya sir,

my my my...what a goldmine of information it is for all the readers who want to know more about these otherworldly spirits. i think sir, you have put even wikipedia to shame.:thumbsup

this title caught my eye and made me wonder...should i or shouldnt i open the thread...seeing that it was already past 1 a.m.
and so i did only to find more information about my ever favourite topic of aavi,pei,mohini,kaateri and bhoothams.:biggrin2:

i loved the way you have classified each supernatural being and making it unique in its own way.plus thanks to all the other members as well....more were discovered along the classification process.:clap


i have an experience that i would like to share(even though they are not MY actual experiences)...


while i was going through the posts of THIS thread just now, my sister had come online after a long time and we were chatting. after the "hi's and how are you's " she was telling me about her new job in a newspaper as a journalist. she was assigned the task of being a crime reporter. so after finishing her work which was covering a murder story that took place yesterday, she headed home. it was 4 a.m. while she was driving the car, she smelt a faint fragrance of jasmine. and then she realised her camera had still contained the images of the dead man she had taken earlier. as soon as she reached home she informed her father and she was advised to immediately take a bath and do some meditation. the news that she covered made into the front page yesterday.

talk about the dead following you back in the wee hours of the morning...and more so because she had the photographs with her....:boo:

cheers
-maya-


a p.s. to anandchitra ma'am
i absolutely love your idea of playing these pranks...i had attempted a few times(or i should say planned them)...but it never materialised.

 

Dear Cheeniyasir,

And where will you draw the line in choosing your topics? From the creepy cockroach to the creepy ghost- wow you span strings of existence!! Coming from Kerala, we have the first rights to talk about all matter or non-matter supramaterial, paranormal and supernatural. Trivandrum, 30 years back, had haunted houses which were crumbly, falling structures, usually under some legal inheritance dispute. One such building near my house now houses the Central Excise office. The watchman still contends that he hears muffled blows from the basement every night.

Kerala has her own home-grown brands of Yakshis Chathans,Odiyans.Years later I discovered that the Scandinavians have their own wilful spirit Odin which was defined and acted the same way as the Mallu Odiyan. My first knowledge of Yakshis was on the way to Trivandrum from Nagercoil. We had to cross Kalliyankaadu at midnight and our driver, a young man was petrified that the nocturnal, nefarious Yakshi- Kalliyankaattu Neeli, a jilted wife would claim him. Years later, these days, as an elderly man, he still quakes taking that route at night. So enduring, so haunting and so sad is her legend.

All said and done, when we take refuge in trivialising the realm of paranormal as bhoothams and peis, we are just wishing away our fear. They say that when a body is abruptly separated from its spirit, the negative energy lingers in the air there. The Trivandrum-Attingal highway is considered/revered as one such spot. A regular accident spot, drivers mumble many prayers when they drive past -day or night. Some even report that they hear low groans and whispres, enticing them to crash and cross tangible borders between being and non-being. That is scary.

I am no less a bhootham. My family and friends call me the cyber bhootham. I have a long list of loved ones on my Gmail chat list. And when I see the ball shining green next to them online, I cannot resist pinging them. It is irresistible.

I know my FB is longer than your leader post, but this is my reward since I rarely get to write a FB to your posts these days.

regards
Vidya
PS: Add 'aasai arakki' to the kaadal pisasu list.

 

Dea Cheeniya sir,

A superb write up on the peis, pisassu etc. Words are :hide: due to fear.

As a city born & bred, I do not have much exposure to these beings and do not really believe these exist. But my MIL is hell bent on making us believe that these things exist. And she will be narrating to my dd her experience in her childhood. She was from a remote village in Madurai where not much houses exist, whenever she used to get up in the middle of the night and see thru the window she could see a pei with a lighted torch walking in the distance.

Recently her brother's daughter had committed suicide by falling into the village well. After few months, here elder sister late in the night had crossed that area with jasmine flowers in her had. She used to claim that she the saw dead daughter's spirit. After this unholy darshan the sister didn't live long. My MIL strongly attributes her death to the sighting.

All said and done, I still argue with her saying that our mind is playing havoc and nothing else. Atleast to assure my kids so that they do not get frightened and hesitate to go into dark rooms and being alone etc.

But I would love to be a kadal pissasu with love overflowing for all.:tongue

 

Sure sir, I am waiting for a separate thread on the bard. In fact why don't you do an in depth research about his works which appealed to you most and post a thread here. I am sure it will be of interest to many. Would you please consider my request? And as usual it should be spiced with your humour otherwise it would be dry! Waiting eagerly for this post on my favourite poet cum playwright.
Regards,
Malathi

 

Sri,

First of all all the best to your GS, for his exams....

I have seen people stopping near one small amman temple near old standard motors factory..to pray for safe journey...

on the way to central..there is one bodyguard muniswaran.....