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For others, food bursts into flames or rots even as they devour it. Others may find food and drink, but have pinhole mouths and cannot swallow. Some can eat but find it impossible to find food or drink. Their specific hunger varies according to their past karma and the sins they are atoning for. Thirty Seven Nats, from Southeast Asia Digital Library by Sir Richard Carnac.ĭefined by a fusion of rage and desire, tormented by unfulfilled cravings and insatiably demanding impossible satisfactions, hungry ghosts are condemned to inhabit shadowy and dismal places in the realm of the living. Hungry ghosts, or Pyetta, in Burmese representation, 1906. Found in every part of the Far East, from the Philippines to Japan and China, Thailand, Laos, Burma, India and Pakistan, they are universally described as human-like wraiths with mummified skin, narrow withered limbs, grossly bulging stomachs, long thin necks and tiny mouths.
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Hungry ghosts are the demon-like creatures described in Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu, Sikh, and Jain texts as the remnants of the dead who are afflicted with insatiable desire, hunger or thirst as a result of bad deeds or evil intent carried out in their life times. Please listen to me, I shall tell you in detail. The Lord said: It is the men of sinful actions actuated by their previous misdeeds who become ghosts after death. Japanese hungry ghost, detail of a scroll painting c1800.