Don’t go down to the river, child,
Don’t go there alone;
For the sobbing woman, wet and wild,
Might claim you for her own.
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“Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.”
--"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Mark Twain
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In Jewish folklore, a dybbuk is a dislocated spirit or ghost that attaches itself to the body of a living person. It inhabits the flesh in order to carry out some sort of unfinished business--usually involving revenge.
La Llorona photo
Hair: Harlow, Cake
Skin: Zombina, Miasnow
Dress: Chemise de la Reine, Ephemera
Sim: Chakryn Forest
Ghost girl in forest photo
Ghost avatar (wearing just the head and hair): Ghostly woman avatar, Curio Obscura
Sim: Bewitched (Is it my imagination or did this place used to be spookier when it was called Bentham Forest? I remember going there long ago and actually feeling creeped out. Now... well, let's just say that after much searching I finally found the only small corner there not marred by floating neon signs or glowing jack o'lanterns or vendor billboards ... the place is just silly now. It reminds me of how, as a girl, when I finally got to go to Winchester Mystery House, I was crestfallen by how normal and perfectly un-scary it was--with loud visitors in white sneakers tramping through, signs to "Watch Your Step!" at every corner and bored teenage guides. I really thought it was going to be haunted.)
Dybbuk-possessed lady photos
Hair: Myrna, Ingenue
Skin: Inanna-Vernissage Pale, Lionskins
Dress: Silk Gypsy, Paper Couture
