[HPforGrownups] Ghosts from violent deaths

[Jen Faulkner]

No: HPFGUIDX 15633

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, crystal white wrote:

> Peeves is a bit different because he's a poltergeist.  Anyone know the 
> theoretical difference?  If HE has any unfinished business, I think it's 
> just that he wanted more time to have fun. GO PEEVES!! :@)

A poltergeist is quite different from a ghost; ghosts were once human,
poltergeists never were.  They are spirits, a concentration of
malevolent energy.  Unlike Peeves, AFAIK, the trad'l poltergeist of
folklore does not have an anthropomorphized identity (a name, a
personality, and so on), but is really more an evil force.  The general
belief is also usually that poltergeists feed off the energy of teenaged
boys, and that manifestations are particularly bad, or in some cases
only present, when there are teenaged boys in the home.  Poltergeists,
like ghosts, seem place-bound; I think exorcism is the prescribed method
for eliminating them, as they are very close to demons?  

--jen :)

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