Familiar spirit

A house spirit or ghost is also home to the popular belief, a spirit who lives in a house or land. In legends and myths they usually occur as guardian spirits who watch over the house and yard and protect people, animals and goods. After taboos or norm violations of the residents, they often appear as pests that need to be dispelled, or be expelled.

Origins

It is difficult to determine an exact origin of the belief in the spirit house. The house ghost was first described by Johann Leonhard Frisch in his dictionary in 1741. He was referred to as the spirit familiaris and rather describes a good-natured spirit. House spirit as a collective name of several kinds of spirits was here probably uncommon and has only developed in the later period. Already in the first half of the 20th century the term was no longer present in the German dialects, raising the suspicion that he has developed into a pseudo-scientific collective term.

Classification

It can be distinguished from familiar spirits, different types, with individual house spirits can not always be clearly assigned: special room spirits inhabit only a portion of the house or yard, such as the kitchen, the cellar or the barn, which thereby becomes a place with certain taboos. Here, there are personal service spirits, the concrete house residents to services are and help to increase their wealth and secure, such as genies or Drake. House dwarfs like brownies or goblins are both reputed to help as invisible helpers in the household overnight, as well as to drive their jokes or drive lazy staff. Pests such as Nachtalbe or poltergeists are among the evil -minded house spirits that are to harass the residents or make it uninhabitable houses.

The European house spirits include the Schrat, the Lares, the brownies, some goblins and elves. The house ghost is from the European culture is also the name for a (often camouflaged as a pet ) spirit which is a witch and she, when exerting its magic.

In Thailand should be the home of the good spirits of a house in a haunted house San Phra Phum.