AfterpantsFeb 8, 2023

@folklore
#folklore #NewFolklore #yurei #money
In several Asian cultures, there is the belief that things offered to the dead in effigy transmute into actual things in the underworld. #sympatheticMagic.

http://hongwrong.com/weird-joss-paper-offerings/
Humans from Ancient Egypt to modern Beijing have practiced the "You can take it with you." funerary idea. (and for a variety of reasons: paying the ferryman, buying a ghost house...etc)
I asked AI to produce ghost money today. Feel free to print it and use it.❤️👻💶

BLOG - Hong Kong's Weirdest Joss Paper Offerings

Hong Kong's most creative contemporary joss paper designs - photos of papier-mâché offerings for burning.

Hong Wrong
AfterpantsFeb 7, 2023

#NewFolklore @folklore
(An AI led journey to #Meido pt 2)

Having already broken the rule of not speaking to the dead, you burst out, " Please! I don't even know how I got here! " The #yurei look at each other. A royal lady speaks to you. "Come with me."
She and some companions lead you out of the great hall.

AfterpantsFeb 7, 2023
A bit of #NewFolklore this morning. I asked AI to produce images of #yurei at a gala event. It actually formed a story which I will try to narrate.
@folklore
Yurei of high birth normally do not socialize. This New Moon was different. Unbeknown to the living, they gathered in the spirit world version of Osaka castle. "Watashi no obake garcondesu." Says the gentleman, "Have you an invitation?"