2019Īs legends go, vampires are certainly ancient, but the word vampire is not. The band is playing two sets and you can see their statement below. The band is requiring that people come dressed as vamps, and upon arrival, you have to sign in to confirm your Drac-status. The band is hoping to make it the largest gathering of vampires ever recorded, and are trying to get into the Guinness book of world records. On October 28, The Damned are hosting (and playing) the 'night of a thousand vampires' at London's Palldium. The German word for ghost, geist, is part of the word zeitgeist, which literally means “spirit of the time.” People say the photo resembles a little girl with her hand stretched out, and that observation coincides with a ghost story from there.Īn older spelling of ghost, gast, is the root of aghast (“struck with terror, shocked”) and ghastly (“frightening”). Recently during a ghost tour at the restaurant, someone snapped a photo that appears to show a ghost hanging out of a third-floor window.

It originally meant “vital spark” or “the seat of life or intelligence,” which is still used in the phrase “give up the ghost.” The most common meaning today, “a disembodied soul” or “the soul or specter of a deceased person” came next, a meaning based on the ancient folkloric notion that the spirit is separable from the body and can continue its existence after death. Ghosts may be the most basic of Halloween costumes, and ghost is a basic English word, going all the way back a thousand years to the earliest recorded evidence of the language.

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