Podcasts about hungry ghost festival

Special festival episode as we look at the dark side of autumn with a dive into Halloween, the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos)and the Hungry Ghost Festival which give off those skeleton and ghoul vibes… But over in India it's a totally different story with festivals of light and hope. Which one do you prefer? Have a listen – it will help you decide. That's not all, we also have seasonal news as crops of pumpkins and cocoa aren't in good shape. Plus, ever heard of “ghost poop?” Apparently, it's a thing. Tune in to find out more. 

The teacher cohort is back with more Asian ghost stories!  And this time... it's even spookier!  Well maybe not, but we tried.  Listen to the best Asian ghost stories Reddit has to offer, hear about Curtis' mysterious disappearing wallet, and find out if Sammo Hung's former residence is really haunted (spoiler alert:  it is)! Also included in this episode are:  jets flying over at low altitudes, free legal advice, and tips for avoiding bad things during the Hungry Ghost Festival. Thanks to my guests Jackie and Vicky!  It's always fun to record "after school" with you guys!  Shout out to Loan for doing her part in keeping the Asian American population growing.  Do you have an Asian ghost story?  You can send me one and I'll read it on the air next year.  Email us at infatuasianpodcast@gmail.com, or give a follow or direct message on Instagram and Facebook @infatuasianpodcast  Our Theme: “Super Happy J-Pop Fun-Time” by Prismic Studios was arranged and performed by All Arms Around  #asianghoststories #halloween #asianpodcast #asian #asianamerican #infatuasian #iinfatuasianpodcast #aapi #veryasian #asianamericanpodcaster #representationmatters  

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Fluent Fiction - Mandarin Chinese: The Hidden Moon Temple: Li Wei's Night of Courage Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.org/the-hidden-moon-temple-li-weis-night-of-courage Story Transcript:Zh: 在八月的一个夜晚，风吹过古老的森林，隐月寺在月光下闪烁。En: On a night in August, the wind swept through the ancient forest, and the Hidden Moon Temple shimmered under the moonlight.Zh: 李伟站在寺庙门口，心中既有恐惧也有决心。En: Li Wei stood at the temple gates, feeling both fear and determination.Zh: 他决心找到那个神秘的人物，恢复家族的荣耀。En: He was resolved to find that mysterious figure and restore his family's honor.Zh: 在他心中，他想起了过世的祖先，感到压力重重。En: In his heart, he remembered his deceased ancestors, feeling immense pressure.Zh: 李伟迈步走进寺庙，四周弥漫着香火的味道。En: Li Wei stepped into the temple, surrounded by the scent of incense.Zh: 庙里灯笼摇曳，影子在石墙上跳舞，让他有些不安。En: Lanterns flickered inside, and shadows danced on the stone walls, making him uneasy.Zh: 传说在这期间，饿鬼节之夜，灵魂四处游荡。En: Legend had it that during the Hungry Ghost Festival, spirits wandered everywhere.Zh: 李伟心中不停地提醒自己要冷静。En: Li Wei kept reminding himself to stay calm.Zh: 梅昭，是李伟的堂妹，也是他的知己，她在出发前跟他说过：“听从你的直觉，但也要留意周围的指引。En: Mei Zhao, Li Wei's cousin and confidante, had told him before his departure: "Trust your instincts, but also be aware of the guidance around you."Zh: ”李伟明白，这次任务不仅是为了家族，更是为了自己。En: Li Wei understood that this task was not only for his family but also for himself.Zh: 庙里弥漫着奇异的氛围，李伟感觉不断有人在注视着他。En: The temple had a mysterious aura, and Li Wei felt as if he was constantly being watched.Zh: 他经过一个个房间，每一个都让他想起童年时家里的故事。En: As he passed through one room after another, each reminded him of childhood stories from home.Zh: 每一个故事都告诉他，勇气是最珍贵的品质。En: Each story taught him that courage was the most precious trait.Zh: 忽然，一个无形的力量把他拉到大殿。En: Suddenly, an invisible force pulled him into the main hall.Zh: 狂风大作，雨点开始猛烈打在窗上。En: A strong wind blew, and raindrops began to pound fiercely against the window.Zh: 大殿的中央，一个模糊的身影若隐若现。En: In the center of the hall, a vague figure appeared and disappeared.Zh: 李伟慢慢靠近，心跳加速。En: Li Wei approached slowly, his heart racing.Zh: 他在心中默念着祖先的名字，希望能得到心灵的安慰。En: He silently recited the names of his ancestors, hoping for spiritual comfort.Zh: 在风雨中，那个神秘的身影终于显露真身。En: In the wind and rain, the mysterious figure finally revealed its true form.Zh: 它竟然是寺庙中的一个古老守护者，一直在测试李伟的勇气和心智。En: It was an ancient guardian of the temple, testing Li Wei's courage and mind all along.Zh: 它轻声说道：“只有最勇敢的人才能保护真相，沉睡的灵魂永远需要一个诚实的守护者。En: It softly said, "Only the bravest can protect the truth; sleeping souls always need an honest guardian."Zh: ”李伟明白，他已经完成了他的使命。En: Li Wei realized he had completed his mission.Zh: 他的心中再也没有恐惧，只有一个坚定的信念。En: His heart was no longer filled with fear, only a firm conviction.Zh: 他感谢那个守护者，离开了寺庙。En: He thanked the guardian and left the temple.Zh: 走出庙门，他回头望去，寺庙的光辉在雨中重现，霓虹般的光芒照亮了整个森林。En: Turning back at the temple gates, he saw its brilliance reemerge in the rain, with rainbow-like light illuminating the entire forest.Zh: 他知道，自己不仅保卫了家族的荣耀，还找到了自己的内心力量。En: He knew he had not only defended his family's honor but also found his inner strength.Zh: 李伟感受到了和祖先更深刻的联系，仿佛他们就在身边。En: Li Wei felt a deeper connection with his ancestors, as if they were right beside him.Zh: 饿鬼节之夜，隐月寺的灵魂得到了安宁，重返平静。En: On the night of the Hungry Ghost Festival, the souls of the Hidden Moon Temple had found peace and returned to tranquility. Vocabulary Words:ancient: 古老的shimmered: 闪烁determination: 决心resolved: 决心restore: 恢复deceased: 过世的immense: 重重incense: 香火flickered: 摇曳uneasy: 不安legend: 传说spirits: 灵魂guidance: 指引aura: 氛围trait: 品质invisible: 无形的raindrops: 雨点vague: 模糊的recited: 默念spiritual: 心灵的revealed: 显露guardian: 守护者conviction: 信念brilliance: 光辉tranquility: 平静confidence: 自信courage: 勇气trust: 相信honor: 荣耀testing: 测试

Hello everyone, it's the time of the year again when the Hell Gates open and our friends from the other realm come to join us. So tune in as we share a set of spooky stories from each of us.  P.S. This ep was too long so we cut it into 2 parts, first part is Reis and Chloe's stories, 2nd part will be Danny and Kady's stories. Danny's story about a night shift security guard begins at: 00:10 Kady's story about creepy dolls with child-like spirits begins at: 37:05 ||CHECK OUT|| Can't Breathe Podcast for more spookiness from Kady and Chloe (they just uploaded again recently!)  Tales from Incredible Tales is back with a new season and more awesome guests. Too Many Ghosts Nowadays, a new horror podcast where a weird girl, Genesis, talks about some weird ass ghosts. If you would like to get updates or reach out to the Stranger Danger crew, you can follow on Instagram @strangerdangerpodcastsg, hang out in our Discord, or send us an email at strangerdangerpodcastsg@gmail.com Brought to you by Mediacorp.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello everyone, it's the time of the year again when the Hell Gates open and our friends from the other realm come to join us. So tune in as we share a set of spooky stories from each of us.  P.S. This ep was too long so we cut it into 2 parts, first part is Reis and Chloe's stories, 2nd part will be Danny and Kady's stories. Reis' story about a woman whose toilet is haunting her begins at: 02:21 Chloe's story about a woman who is haunted by a friend overseas begins at: 24:02 ||CHECK OUT|| Can't Breathe Podcast for more spookiness from Kady and Chloe (they just uploaded again recently!)  Tales from Incredible Tales is back with a new season and more awesome guests. Too Many Ghosts Nowadays, a new horror podcast where a weird girl, Genesis, talks about some weird ass ghosts. If you would like to get updates or reach out to the Stranger Danger crew, you can follow on Instagram @strangerdangerpodcastsg, hang out in our Discord, or send us an email at strangerdangerpodcastsg@gmail.com Brought to you by Mediacorp.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this special episode, released on the day of the Hungry Ghost Festival 2024, we delve into the haunting and fascinating world of Hungry Ghosts. These spirits, driven by insatiable desires and unfulfilled cravings, are a significant part of both folklore and religious teachings in East Asian cultures. Join us as we explore the lore and philosophy surrounding these tormented souls: 1. Gaki: Discover the eerie tales of the Gaki, spirits condemned to eternal hunger due to their past misdeeds. 2. Naegatsuku: Learn about the Naegatsuku, ghostly beings whose unquenchable thirst and hunger lead them to desperate and haunting behaviors. 3. Jikininki: Uncover the chilling legends of the Jikininki, human-eating ghosts driven by an insatiable hunger for the flesh of the dead. We'll explore their terrifying transformations, the moral lessons embedded in their tales, and their role in Buddhist parables about the consequences of greed and selfishness. In addition to these captivating stories, we delve into the Buddhist philosophy of hungry ghosts, exploring the spiritual and moral teachings that underpin their existence. We'll discuss how these beings symbolize the dangers of unrestrained desires, the karmic repercussions of one's actions, and how the living can help alleviate their suffering through acts of compassion and generosity. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/missionspooky/support

The Hungry Ghost Festival is a time when the gates to the spirit world open and visitors from the other realm can walk the earth. These ghosts are often very hungry, especially those who had violent or tragic deaths. Thankfully there are ways to abate these spirits, by following strict rules and respectfully leaving an offering of food. Just make sure not to forget any of them or you may find yourself face to face with a very angry entity. First, a haunted hotel Followed by a hungry ghost Then, in our final story, a tragic tale from Malaysia   Subscribe: https://bit.ly/subSNARLED Watch the latest: https://youtube.com/watch?playlist&list=PLlt49G0M7dfhhFe79kdPucjYzWv4CK8H1&index=1 Follow us EVERYWHERE: https://facebook.com/watchsomethingscary/ https://facebook.com/getsnarled/ https://instagram.com/wearesnarled/ https://twitter.com/wearesnarled Follow Steffany: TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@steffany_strange YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/SteffanyStrange Instagram: https://instagram.com/steffany_strange/ Follow Blair: TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@blairbathory Instagram: https://instagram.com/blairbathory/ Facebook: https://facebook.com/blairbathory1 Twitter: https://twitter.com/blairbathory Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/BlairBathory About SNARLED: Your home for scary stories, from urban legends to true tales of murder, mystery and the unknown. If you have Something Scary to tell us, send it to SomethingScary@snarled.com. More about the show! • Go to SomethingScary.com to check out the awesome Something Scary Merch. We've got something for everyone, from hoodies to hats to writer's notebooks. • Do you want to connect with other people who love horror and all things Something Scary? Join our Patreon and you get members only access to our Discord. And you can chat with all the other horror lovers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the third time the history and traditions behind a Chinese holiday is being introduced. The history behind the Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival were both presented back in the days when I knew even less than I do now about how to podcast. The Hungry Ghost Festival goes by a number of names, mainly because it's one of those rare festivals that is celebrated by both Daoists and Buddhists. It's called the Zhōngyuán 中元， Qīyuèbàn 七月半, Yúlánpén 盂兰盆, and Ullambana Festival. Daoists and Buddhists have their own spin on the legends behind the Hungry Ghost Festival. But the main idea remains the same. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the gates of hell open up for all Hungry Ghosts to return to the world of the living and for the living to show them the respect and kindness they were denied in their living forms. https://www.instagram.com/lahungryghostfest/ https://chssc.org/event/la-chinatown-hungry-ghost-festival/ https://lahungryghostfestival.com/ https://www.micahhuangmusic.com/ https://www.instagram.com/hungryghostnote/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the third time the history and traditions behind a Chinese holiday is being introduced. The history behind the Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival were both presented back in the days when I knew even less than I do now about how to podcast. The Hungry Ghost Festival goes by a number of names, mainly because it's one of those rare festivals that is celebrated by both Daoists and Buddhists. It's called the Zhōngyuán 中元， Qīyuèbàn 七月半, Yúlánpén 盂兰盆, and Ullambana Festival. Daoists and Buddhists have their own spin on the legends behind the Hungry Ghost Festival. But the main idea remains the same. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the gates of hell open up for all Hungry Ghosts to return to the world of the living and for the living to show them the respect and kindness they were denied in their living forms. https://www.instagram.com/lahungryghostfest/ https://chssc.org/event/la-chinatown-hungry-ghost-festival/ https://lahungryghostfestival.com/ https://www.micahhuangmusic.com/ https://www.instagram.com/hungryghostnote/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The month of August is known by many Singaporeans fans as a month to celebrate our independence, but there's an additional layer to August that our community would probably deem just as iconic and that's the Hungry Ghost Festival, which starts on the 4th of August. For this episode we feature ghost stories that take place specifically in homes. Listen to an encounter that turned a lime black with rot from a house in Tampines, the wail of a ghostly woman in Toa Payoh that only children can hear, and the many stories that haunt a family on Mandalay Road.   Supernatural Confessions was created and produced by Eugene Tay. If you would like to support this channel, do consider backing us on ⁠Patreon⁠ [www.patreons.com/supernaturalconfessions]. Weekly featured confession videos are live shows are streamed on ⁠YouTube⁠ [www.youtube.com/supernaturalconfessions]. Merchandise available on our ⁠website⁠ [www.supernaturalconfessions.com]

This is the third time the history and traditions behind a Chinese holiday is being introduced. The history behind the Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival were both presented back in the days when I knew even less than I do now about how to podcast. The Hungry Ghost Festival goes by a number of names, mainly because it's one of those rare festivals that is celebrated by both Daoists and Buddhists. It's called the Zhōngyuán 中元， Qīyuèbàn 七月半, Yúlánpén 盂兰盆, and Ullambana Festival. Daoists and Buddhists have their own spin on the legends behind the Hungry Ghost Festival. But the main idea remains the same. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the gates of hell open up for all Hungry Ghosts to return to the world of the living and for the living to show them the respect and kindness they were denied in their living forms. https://www.instagram.com/lahungryghostfest/ https://chssc.org/event/la-chinatown-hungry-ghost-festival/ https://lahungryghostfestival.com/ https://www.micahhuangmusic.com/ https://www.instagram.com/hungryghostnote/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the third time the history and traditions behind a Chinese holiday is being introduced. The history behind the Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival were both presented back in the days when I knew even less than I do now about how to podcast. The Hungry Ghost Festival goes by a number of names, mainly because it's one of those rare festivals that is celebrated by both Daoists and Buddhists. It's called the Zhōngyuán 中元， Qīyuèbàn 七月半, Yúlánpén 盂兰盆, and Ullambana Festival. Daoists and Buddhists have their own spin on the legends behind the Hungry Ghost Festival. But the main idea remains the same. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the gates of hell open up for all Hungry Ghosts to return to the world of the living and for the living to show them the respect and kindness they were denied in their living forms. https://www.instagram.com/lahungryghostfest/ https://chssc.org/event/la-chinatown-hungry-ghost-festival/ https://lahungryghostfestival.com/ https://www.micahhuangmusic.com/ https://www.instagram.com/hungryghostnote/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Breakfast with Tiffany Show podcast! In this episode, Tiffany is joined by world-renowned activist Dr. Brenda Alegre, a psychologist and professor of Gender Studies at the University of Hong Kong. The two discuss various topics, including Dr. Alegre's journey as a transgender woman, her experiences growing up in the Philippines, her involvement in LGBTQ+ activism, and her work in the field of gender studies. Together, they explore the complexities of identity, resilience, and the power of activism. Dr. Alegre shares her inspiring personal story, shedding light on the challenges faced by transgender individuals and offering valuable insights into the importance of acceptance and understanding. Join Tiffany and Dr. Alegre on this enlightening and heartfelt conversation that celebrates diversity, inclusivity, and the strength of the human spirit. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dr. Brenda Alegre is a prominent transgender activist. Born in the Philippines, Dr. Alegre has a deep understanding of the challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community, especially transgender individuals. Through her work and activism, she has become a beacon of inspiration, advocating for acceptance, understanding, and equal rights for all. Dr. Alegre's journey as a transgender woman and her academic expertise have not only contributed significantly to the field of gender studies but have also made a lasting impact on society, fostering awareness and promoting inclusivity. Her passion, resilience, and dedication to creating a more inclusive world have earned her recognition as a leading voice in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights. https://genderstudies.hku.hk/brenda-alegre/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mentioned on this episode;  Ep. 23: 3 Things That Made Me A Famous Columnist And Political Blogger In The Philippines By Sass Rogando Sasot - https://www.tiffanyrossdale.com/podcast/episode/4d4d1d3d/3-things-that-made-me-a-famous-columnist-and-political-blogger-in-the-philippines-by-sass-rogando-sasot Support the showBreakfast With Tiffany Show Official Facebook Page ~ https://www.facebook.com/breakfastwithtiffanyshow Tiffany's Instagram Account ~ https://www.instagram.com/tiffanyrossdaleofficial/ For coaching sessions & programs with Tiffany, check out her official page ~ https://www.tiffanyrossdale.com Breakfast With Tiffany Show Youtube Channel ~ https://bit.ly/3vIVzhE Breakfast With Tiffany Show Official Page ~ https://www.tiffanyrossdale.com/podcast For questions, requests, collaborations and comments, feel free to reach us via our e-mail ~ breakfastwithtiffanyshow@outlook.com

It's SPOOKY SZN! In this episode of The Round Room, your hosts ring in the most wonderful time of the year with celebrations of death. Travel south of the border to Mexico with Shawnna to learn about Día de Los Muertos. Head East to China as Kristel tells you all about the Hungry Ghost Festival. Get ready to take a trip to the other side, Roomies. 

Ever wondered about the spooky origins of Halloween and how it evolved into the holiday we know today?In this BUSTING BACK EPISODE, embark on a chilling journey as Jackie and Ella unravel the suspenseful history and traditions of this spectral celebration and tons of trick or treating fun facts / Halloween fun facts for kids!The journey begins with the start of Halloween, rooted in Celtic festivals marking the end of summer and onset of death-associated cold seasons, and how it was later influenced by the Romans and their own festive customs. From there, we hop across the Atlantic, unmasking how this eerie European tradition blended with Native American customs to morph into a uniquely American celebration. With the influx of Irish immigrants in the 19th century, Halloween began to weave its web all over the nation. The treasured custom of trick-or-treating didn't miss our radar either. Brace yourself as we navigate through its history, tracing back to early Celtic and Roman Catholic festivals and the 9th-century All Souls Day.Finally, we cast light on the sweet side of Halloween - candy history! Learn about the creation of the quintessential candy corn by the Golitz family and the fascinating tale of the 1923 Chicken Dinner Candy Bar. But the Halloween magic doesn't end in America. We'll jet around the world, unearthing Halloween traditions in different cultures, from the Hungry Ghost Festival in Hong Kong to Dia das Bruchas in Brazil. So, grab your broomstick and join us for a wickedly enlightening adventure into Halloween's past.Support the showGrab your free Buster Deduction sheet for kids!Check out how your can support our LISTEN FOR CAUSE to help us give back to others! INSTAGRAM FACEBOOK *All resources and references used in researching this podcast episode are found on the corresponding episode post on ParentBusters.com.

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Howdy ya'll, on this 中元节 (15th day of the 7th month of the Lunar Calendar), we invite friends and entities from the other realm to share some spooky stories.  Tune in to find out more. Check out Can't Breathe Podcast for Kady's and Chloe's stories. Check out (After) Life Support, our new horror comedy audio drama series released for Hungry Ghost Festival. If you would like to get updates or reach out to the Stranger Danger crew, you can follow on Instagram @strangerdangerpodcastsg, hang out in our Discord, or send us an email at strangerdangerpodcastsg@gmail.com Brought to you by Mediacorp.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Ghost Month is a traditional Chinese festival rooted in Buddhist and Taoist beliefs. This annual event, typically observed in the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar, is a time when it is believed that the gates of the underworld open, releasing the spirits of the deceased to roam the earthly realm. The Ghost Month is a cultural phenomenon that provides valuable insight into the Chinese perception of life, death, and the metaphysical world, embodying the essence of filial piety, respect for ancestors, and the interplay of fear and reverence towards the supernatural.Alongside the ghost month, the hungry ghost festival is held on the the 15th day of the seventh lunar month (this year falling on the 30th August) In Chinese Heritage in the Making: Experiences, Negotiations, and Contestations, scholar Selina Ching Chan writes The Festival "involves various rituals aimed at appeasing the hungry ghosts and providing them with offerings. People make food offerings, burn incense and joss paper and set up temporary altars or stages for performances. These offerings are meant to provide nourishment and fulfill the needs of the wandering spirits,”**Please note that we will now be releasing Sunday's episode to Monday in the future**Join Sarah's new FACEBOOK GROUPSubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesFollow us on YOUTUBEJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch Link OneResearch Link TwoStory One - RetellingThanks so much for listening and we'll catch up with you again on Thursday.Sarah and Tobie xx"Spacial Winds" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When her uncle mysteriously turns up unannounced one night, Bonnie (Chen Keat Yoke) ends up taking a trip back to her hometown in rural Behrang Stesen. Little does she expect to get stranded there during a Covid-19 lockdown, where she is forced to take refuge in her family's old coffeeshop - only to discover that it is haunted by the ghosts of her relatives who have returned for the Hungry Ghost Festival. We review the movie and talk about, among other things, its unique premise. Image Credit: IMDb

The Hungry Ghost Festival is one of several important festival days of Ghost Month - the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar. The festival is the setting of the Malaysian film Hungry Ghost Diner, which is a supernatural tale about memory, nostalgia, and commemoration, directed by filmmaker Cho We Jun. The film recently won the prestigious Netpac Award at the 27th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, and we catch up with We Jun, and also Lim Benji, the film's producer, to discuss why they made a Cantonese language film set against the backdrop of the Hungry Ghost Festival during the MCO, while also doing a 101 on the Hungry Ghost Festival.

From the Hungry Ghost Festival, Halloween, the Day of the Dead to Diwali, Guru Nanak, Bonfire Night and Thanksgiving! This episode is brought to you by Newsy Pooloozi. Show Contributors Jackson Hosking Saadhana Nagaraj Nirbhay Singh Chauhan Yuching Liu Adhyant Singh Chauhan Reyaansh Zaveri Yuvraj Singh Sahni

The guys try to learn why we started handing out candy on Halloween, figure out you can't kill vampires with garlic, and discover leaving a loaf of bread upside-down is just asking for trouble. Follow Foodiot on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for the latest episodes, news, and more. Sponsors Foodiot is proud to be sponsored by Hey Grill Hey and the Hey Grill Hey app. Episode Resources and References: Sites/Articles"Garlic: Superstitions, Folklore and Fact" - AmericanFolklore.net"Hungry Ghost Festival" - ChinaHighlights.com"Bread and Bad Luck: A French Superstition" - CuriousRambler.com"Day of the Dead" - DayoftheDead.holiday"5 Curious Bread Superstitions You Wouldn't Expect" - HellenicGrocery.com"Samhain" - History.com"Why is It Bad Luck to Spill Salt?" - HowStuffWorks.com"10 Odd Superstitions about Food" - Listverse.com"Why Do We Eat Candy on Halloween?" - MentalFloss.com Credits Hosts: Todd Bulloch, Lloyd Grimm, Denny Munson Music Credit: Shiny Heads Productions

Did you know that Halloween has its roots in the British Isles, especially from an ancient festival called 'Samhain'? Welcome back to our special returning guest, Caine, who gives us all the details. He previously gave us: the 'Deep Dive Into Tea'; the 'Deep Dive Into British Men's Wardrobes'; the 'A Deep Dive Into Ink: British Tattoo Culture'; the 'Deep Dive Into Christmas'; a 'Shallow Dive' into St. George's Day; and many more!  Check out his video on a similarly themed topic to Halloween, The Hungry Ghost Festival, celebrated in China. Caine's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/VideosByCaineThe Hungry Ghost Festival video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GFS_kFGnuA ***You can e-mail me: AlbionNeverDies@Gmail.comYou can find me on Instagram: @FlemingNeverDies***Subscribe to my newsletter: https://youtube.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b3afdae99897eebbf8ca022c8&id=5165536616Check out my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/britishcultureCheck out my online shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/British-culture/shopSupport the show

Kids News This Week: Autum is a season full of festivals from the scary to the sweet - this autumn festival capsule has the story behind most of them. From Halloween in the US to Asia's Hungry Ghost Festival and Mexico's Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Never mind the Indian festivals, including Diwali for Hindus and Guru Nanak, the biggest festival for the Sikhs. Oh, and did we mention the British Guy Fawkes festival, also called Bonfire Night? Have a listen to get into the festive mood!

Having been inspired after talking about the different traditions practiced all over the world with the underlying theme of death on a recent episode of The Secret Teachings with Ryan Gable, there was one that caught my attention. That is the East Asian tradition of The Hungry Ghost Festival. Similar to Día De Los Muertos, many Taoist and Buddhist celebrate what is known as The Hungry Ghost Festival to honor and remember the dead. It is said that during this time the both the gates of Heaven and Hell are opened and the spirits are allowed to roam the Earth. These spirits are restless and hungry and must be fed by certain rituals. Join us as we explore this topic a little deeper. Also, Do you have a story to share? If you email me and share your story I will gladly, with your permission of course, feature it on a future episode for the rest of us to listen and enjoy. Check out our website at www.MysteriesBeyond.com and/or email us at LauraLavender.mb@gmail.com Check us out on social media on Instagram @LauraLavender.mb and/or on Facebook at Mysteries Beyond Website: www.mysteriesbeyond.com Email: lauralavender.mb@gmail.com Instagram: @lauralavender.mb Facebook: Mysteries Beyond My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/LauraLavender.mb Check out our Easy Shop: LauraJeanCandles to help support the podcast and get your own intention candle! Intro Music by: Mystery by GoSoundtrack http://www.gosoundtrack.com/Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International — CC BY 4.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/mystery-gosoundtrackMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/8TKy9bzrk24 Background Music by: CO.AG Music - Ghost-Haunting Atmospheric Piano Music YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6NEQW_2GcU&t=10s --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mysteriesbeyond/message

Do you believe in ghosts? How about Hong Kong haunts and Nottingham's scary spooks? This year, Hungry Ghost Month is going international...    In this week's special episode, we talk with Isabel from the Proudly Asian podcast about her scary experiences in Nottingham and Hong Kong.   When there's something strange, in your neighbourhood, who you gonna call...?   Catch the Proudly Asian podcast:   Spotify: Proudly Asian by Isabel Wong Instagram: @proudly.asian Website: https://proudly-asian.com/ Linktree: https://lnk.bio/proudly.asian/ For the ABC fam: Check out my website: https://abriefcasepodcast.com/  Be my friend on Instagram: @abriefcasepodcast]    

We discussed the festivities and traditions of Hungry Ghost Festival that happens for the whole month of Lunar 7th month. [ratings] http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/penanghokkien.com/media/PgHkn-2022-08-15.mp3 Follow me on:

In this episode, we talk about the Hungry Ghost Festival, do a rundown on a number of recent happenings, and discuss the Ballmer Peak and how alcohol could actually help us perform better. +++ Music used "Victory" by Monplaisir; "Camper" by Phillip Gross; "Level 4" by Monplaisir; "Japan", "Too Grimy", "Sofa Fitness" by Lobo Loco; and "Seattle" by Yung Kartz. Check them out on freemusicarchive.org.

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After not seeing each other in nearly three weeks the ladies lose their minds as usual. Then, Cassidy covers the cases of missing people around Donnell Point and Amanda shares some details of the Hungry Ghost Festival!  Get a discount on your first month of online therapy here! Help Kate's puppy get treatment here!   Find our social media and more here!  

Today, for the very last episode of season 3, we are joined by Hakam Takash, radio broadcaster and soon to be founder of a vegan food company (watch this space!). What is necromancy? How does it manifest itself indifferent cultures and religions? What does it have to do with divination? How did Christians get around practicing necromancy without fearing the wrath of the Church? How is it linked to ancestor worship? Who were the Sabians? What is an ancestor cult? What is the Hungry Ghost Festival? How did the Chinese transport bodies back to their hometowns? How do you actually summon the dead, asking for a friend? Click here to visit the We Knew The Moon website. Don't forget to check out our cool new MERCH!

This week on The ALTER Tapes, Sharai and Bobby discuss Raymond C. Lai's 2020 short ‘Logan Lee & The Rise of the Purple Dawn.' We talk about representation on television, our individual histories with the show Supernatural, get a little into Bobby's astrology chart, and weigh the pros and cons of this magical strain of weed.Premise: It's the night of the Hungry Ghost Festival, and Chinese-American scratch DJ Logan Lee is poised to make his live debut at his best friend Beatrice Pan's house party. The problem is, he's a nervous wreck.Connect with your co-hosts:Sharai Bohannon: @misssharai / @nightmarefierce / @blerdymassacreBobby Torrez: @BobbyTorrez / @people_scares See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ill omens and foul plots come to the surface as four wandering warriors, each locked in conflict between duty and heart, investigate the Hungry Ghost Festival at the riverside fishing village of Ardent Maple. Romance, dark magic, and a teahouse brawl kick off the first session of this quarterly run. This is the first of twelve sessions of Hearts of Wulin using the Fantastic Wuxia variant rules. For more on Hearts of Wulin, see: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/hearts-of-wulin.html. This session is part of Gauntlet Calendar. To find out more about the Gauntlet roleplaying game community, check out gauntlet-rpg.com

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As the world scrambles to inoculate people against COVID-19, one store owner in Malaysia is finding his paper vaccines have become popular. Raymond Shieh Siow Leong sells religious goods at his shop in the southern Malaysian city of Johor Bahru. This year, one of his fastest-selling items is a box set with a syringe and two vaccine vials made of paper. People are buying them to honor the dead during the Hungry Ghost Festival. They leave out food and paper objects for the spirits of the dead when they return to Earth during the seventh month of the Chinese Lunar calendar. This year, the festival is from Aug. 8 to Sept. 6. “The COVID-19 situation in our country is quite serious and many people passed away before receiving the vaccine. I hope this product can help the deceased to fulfill their dying wish,” Shieh said. (Reuters) This article was provided by The Japan Times Alpha.

For thousands of years, cultures around the world have cultivated an unusual, shared belief, that in the Autumn season, the Vale between this world and the next thins.. and the dead return to roam.  The Hungry Ghost Festival in Hong Kong and India's Pitney Paksha are just a couple of examples, but the most well-known, of course, is Samhain, the ancient Celtic holiday that gave birth to Halloween. One can't help but wonder if these traditions, in fact, honor a real supernatural occurrence. A mass visitation of nocturnal visitors... What do these spirits seek, and what sorts of otherworldly creatures follow them through this transient gateway? On this episode of Belief Hole, we explore chilling accounts of a shadowy cast of characters, from the ancient Tuatha De Danann, to the fear-eating Dogmen of Matanuska Valley, and all sorts of eerie entities in between. Join us, as we light a candle, set out the candy, and conjure up, true tales of Halloween Horror! Also.. Jon dreams of other realities, Jeremy chooses tricks over treats, and Chris threatens to use the Ouija! TIMESTAMPS: 0:01 | Topic Introduction | Halloween, Samhain, the Lifting of the Vale and a mass visitation of nocturnal visitors 2:28 | Halloween.. Tornado? 3:50 | Topic Introduction 2 | True Halloween Horror Stories 5:16 | Shout Out: Sue La Rose! Thanks for the book (Quackery)! 6:28 | Jeremy's Manhattan PKE Mystery 9:21 | Oweynagat Cave – The Reality of Celtic Samhain Traditions 11:11 | Perchten Pagan Festival 12:30 | Celtic Otherworld, the Tuatha Dé Danann, Tír na nÓg – Missing 411, Fortean Fogs, Fairy / Faie Lore and the Dogman Connection 19:42 | Harry Hand in the Hall | Story 23:05 | Green Children of Woolpit (brief mention) 25:10 | The Swaying Observer | Story 28:09 | 2 Corroborating Accounts (Bannik) | Story 30:39 | Swaying Spooks, The Night Walkers, and other unexplained visitors 32:18 | A Lift From The Grave (or) Graveyard Shocker | Minette | Story 40:15 | The Halloween Prop (A Dogman Story) | Melissa H. | Story 46:43 | NEW Dogman T-Shirt! | Fancy Crafts 47:48 | Graveyard Ghosts, Cemetery Creepers and Dogman of the Dead! | EXPANSION Discussion 50:37 | Halloween Fire Burial (A Ouija Board Story)| Story 56:29 | The Woman in the Basement | Jennifer | Story 1:06:11 | Patron And Expansion Member Thank Yous FULL SHOW NOTES:https://beliefhole.com/3-17-it-happened-on-halloween-true-stories-of-otherworldly-crossings EXPANSION EPISODE:3.17 EXP | Graveyard Ghosts, Cemetary Creepers, and Dogman of the Dead!

This Wednesday podcast starts with a story about a cinema situated at Ximending, Taiwan where Fiona experience something else but not from the movie that they were watching and that is not the only story from Fiona in Taiwan! Following confession, we have a voice recording from the confessor himself, telling us story about his childhood story during Hungry Ghost Festival. Lesson learnt there was, do not say what you do not know what it really means, for it might offend something not visible to our human naked eyes. Know Your Hantu for this week is from Thailand about Kuman Thong and also a sharing from an ex owner of a Kuman Thong. Malaysian version would be called - Toyol and we feature a story of it too in this episode.

Shaherald Night Live - S2E1 - Welcoming the New Hijrah Year and The Islamic View on Hungry Ghost FestivalDifference between Islamic and Gregorian calendarIs Muharram the start of Islamic history?What is the concept of Hijrah?Are there different types of Hijrah?Stories of Hijrah and the significance of the Day of AshuraWhat can we learn from the practical lessons of Hijrah?How do we apply Hijrah now?Islamic view on Hungry Ghost Festival

We are entering the month of The Hungry Ghost Festival. Many East East Asians, Buddhists, and Taoists believe this is when ghosts can return to Earth to haunt the living. So, their descendants burn paper money, and incense, as well as serve food to pay respect to their ancestors and sooth wandering or angry spirits. There are many important rules for humans to follow in order to stay safe during the festival. A list of Do and Don'ts you better follow, or the ghosts will satisfy their hunger with YOU. First, Do NOT be alone in the dark. Then, Do NOT mock the dead. Finally in our featured story, whatever you do, Do NOT take the last bus. 🔎👒 Download June's Journey for free here: https://pixly.go2cloud.org/SH2WW Thanks to June's Journey for sponsoring this video Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During Hungry Ghost Month, the gates of hell open, releasing all. Not just ancestors and lost friends but the vengeful and disturbed as well. Prepare yourself for the supernatural and scary. Michelle and I can't wait to share our ghost stories with you. So listen, and enjoy yourself. Can you feel the hair on your arms and the back of your neck stand? But don't forget. If you're listening, they're listening too... Website: https://abriefcasepodcast.com/  Instagram: @abriefcasepodcast

In this episode, we talk about the Hungry Ghost Festival, do a rundown on a number of recent happenings, and discuss the Ballmer Peak and how alcohol could actually help us perform better. +++ Music used "Victory" by Monplaisir; "Camper" by Phillip Gross; "Level 4" by Monplaisir; "Japan", "Too Grimy", and "Seattle" by Yung Kartz. Check them out on freemusicarchive.org.

Good Morning Tribe! Today, it's the eve of the traditional Hungry Ghost Festival. If you live in Asia, you probably are familiar with this festival, nothing to be afraid of, though when we were kids, our Uncles and Aunts love to tell ghost stories about the Ghost Month! The true power of any "day" are always based on the the vibrational energies of the Constellation, BaZi, Stars and Hexagram prevailing on that particular day. Festivities have nothing to do with it. But today ... Constellation of Willow (the Shamanic and magical willow) meets with the Dimming LIght Hexagram, where light dimiishes and darkness spreads across the land! So should we call the Ghostbusters ?Listen and get your Daily Audio Calendar delivered to your telegram here for FREE

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The Chinese will be celebrating the hungry ghost festival very soon. Let us explore Hungry Ghost Festival.Traditionally HGF falls on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. During this period, many Chinese worship their ancestors and make offerings to wandering souls that roam the earth. There is a slight difference in ideology of the way Taoist and Buddhist followers observe HGF. Taoists focus on appeasing the wandering souls released from the netherworld, while the emphasis of the Buddhists is filial piety. Join Wraith in this paranormal mystery journey where you will think and find whether which are fact and which are fiction....If you have any stories of your own and want Wraith to share to all our listeners,Do email at latenightmysteries@gmail.comSUBSCRIBE US ON YOUTUBEhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeg3nLF4mexguxo7RMPkOwLIKE OUR FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/LateNightMysteriesSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/LateNightMysteries)

Khee Shi Hui: “We tried to explain to some relatives that cared very much for things like shark's fin. We took that off our wedding menu and tried to explain as best as we could. Not everybody would understand, but we tried to stay true to at least that. It was not possible to omit meat, so we tried to discuss options with the restaurant to see what were some essentials that we needed to keep because meat can be quite symbolic to the Peranakan culture where my husband comes from. If we do away with the buah keluak chicken, it's like a real travesty. How can you not have buah keluak! So it was a negotiation of what do we keep and what do we try to substitute for.” Khee, Tabaogirl on Instagram, discusses how we can reconcile our Singaporean identity and cultural heritage with sustainability, plus: *How her interest in caring for the environment was sparked* *Misconceptions about caring for the environment* *Gifting mooncakes, buying new clothes, Hungry Ghost Festival from the perspective of environmentalism* *Options for more sustainable weddings* *Celebrating vegetables in Singapore* *Ways to be more environmentally-conscious as an eater and cook*

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Many countries and cultures don't celebrate Halloween, but they do have their own incredible festivals honoring the dead. In this episode, we discover some of those fascinating Halloween-adjacent traditions. It's a fun reminder that no matter where we come from, we all want to remember and honor our ancestors. I'm dying to hear your Halloween memories and questions! What do you love about the season? Need some spooky advice? Call the All Hallows Hotline: 802-532-DEAD or write to itsalwayshalloweenpodcast@gmail.com You may be featured in an upcoming episode! Sources: Obon Traditions in Japanese Culture Pictures of the Obon Festival of the Dead in Japan The Festival of the Spirits of the Dead in Japan Ghost Festival What You Need to Know About Obon 12 Halloween Celebrations From Around the World 5 African Festivals to Celebrate Instead of Halloween Nigeria's Egungun Festival: Color, Culture, & Community Yoruba Religion Bolaji Campbell on Egungun The Egungun Festival of the Yoruba People Have You Heard of the Hungry Ghost Festival?

This month the KYD team are discussing Eula Biss's latest genre defying work ‘Having and Being Had', a series of linked essays in which Biss explores her lived experience of capitalism, along with SBS's new supernatural drama 'Hungry Ghosts', in which vengeful spirits haunt the Vietnamese-Australian community in Melbourne during the month of the Hungry Ghost Festival. Our theme song is Broke for Free's ‘Something Elated'. This episode was produced by Hayley May Bracken. Further Reading and Culture Picks: ‘Avoiding the trap of the Self-Aware Writer', The Cut ContraPoints, ‘Opulence' (YouTube) Rabbit Hole podcast The Cut podcast, ‘Are We the Virus?' Stream or subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Soundcloud / Google Podcasts / Spotify / Other (RSS) Let us know what you think by rating and reviewing in your app of choice! TRANSCRIPT (MUSIC) Hayley May Bracken: Welcome back to the Kill Your Darlings podcast. I'm Hayley May Bracken, joined by Kill Your Darlings' own Alan and Alice… Alice Cottrell: Hello! Alan Vaarwerk: Hey! HMB: We're all recording from the safety of our own homes. Today will be discussing Eula Biss' latest genre-defying work, Having and Being Had, and also the four-part SBS miniseries Hungry Ghosts. Eula Biss is a New York Times bestseller, her most recent book is On Immunity: An Inoculation, which was named one of the Top 10 best books of 2014 by the New York Times Book Review, and she's also written Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays, which won the National Book Circle Award for criticism, and her work has appeared in Harpers, the New York Times, Believer, and elsewhere. Having and Being Had, Biss herself has said, was a record of the moves that she made within a fixed set of rules. It's also a record of her discomfort with those rules and with the game itself, the game being capitalism. AC: So I think the book came out of a diary that she kept when she bought her first house, about the experience of buying into the American dream and the feelings of discomfort that she had in moving to a particular position in the social hierarchy. HMB: And she had some rules for herself, when she constructed this work as well, to be explicit and write down figures of how much her house cost, how much her income was, rather than deal in vagaries. AV: Yeah, I think it's interesting that she sort of set up these rules for herself, but also that she told us as the reader what the rules were that she was establishing for the writing of the book. Short essays, a couple of pages at most, they all start in the first person, they all are based around a conversation that she had with a friend or a family member. Sometimes she says she bent the rules a little bit in order to talk about a book that she's reading, rather than a conversation. The fact that talking about money and actually putting dollar figures to her discussions of class and capitalism and things like that, the fact that that can be a taboo. HMB: Mmm. I also loved how she was transparent about the way that, in her private life, she was deliberately ambiguous about the cost of her house. When she spoke to her sister, and she was saying that her life is divided into time before owning a washing machine and after, and that she could say that purchase of a home was a $400,000 container for her washing machine, and then she wrote ‘it's actually closer to $500,000, but I wasn't comfortable saying that.' The little disavowals. AC: That bit struck me too, Hayley, I thought yeah, it was sort of a really interesting interrogation of the lies that we tell ourselves to make ourselves comfortable as well, and I read an interview with Eula where she was saying basically that people use other people being more rich than them as a comparison to make themselves feel better, but the reality is in a country like America there's always going to be someone who's more rich than you, and there's a section in the book where she says to her husband, ‘we're rich,' and I think he expresses that he doesn't feel rich, and she texts him saying ‘I'm compiling evidence that we're rich.' So I think it's interesting that she doesn't just interrogate her own wealth, or her relationship to money, but she also interrogates lies or obscuring details we use to talk about or acknowledge money or our own financial situations. AV: I mean the whole book is kind of as much an artistic experiment in terms of the rules that she sets for herself, It's also kind of a thought—we're sort of working out with her, she and by extension we as the reader sort of fit within these systems, and what compromises that we sort of have to make every day in order to live a quote unquote ‘comfortable' life, whether that means buying shares in order to pay for your retirement, and the fact that a lot of investments are conducted at such a remove, I think there's a section where she discusses either being able to invest in a company that treats its workers well, or looks after the planet, and sometimes it's not possible to be able to invest in either one, and so it's a decision that has to be made in order for her to do the work that she wants to do. I guess we can get into in a little bit about what work even means, but yeah, the idea of what is a luxury to have, what is an investment, what is an investment in your own craft, which is something that she sort of interrogates a lot, and what that means from a sort of ethical standpoint under capitalism, I suppose. HMB: The way that she was, as is the 2020 way, checking her own privilege, it wasn't exhausting or pedantic, it felt very in its right place in this work, it felt as though it didn't rest at stating some privileges and moving on, it was that really thorough interrogation of, as you were saying, what even is work, and what is the morality of that. How she managed to live in New York as a younger writer on $10,000 a year and made as much money as she needed to survive and then live as a writer. I was quite amazed to learn how modest her income and her livelihood really was, considering her literary-critical success. I don't know if that's comforting or discouraging to learn how little money she had while she was writing these wonderful things. AV: It really does systemically dismantle this myth of, ‘you have to starve for your art'. I think the reality of so many working writers and people involved in and around writing is that it is work and it's, and it's labour, and as Eula Biss articulates in the book, it's in some ways, you know, a lot easier labour than than other kinds of labour, but it is labour nonetheless, and so the way that she's, I guess, lays out the admin involved in building a writing life, the economics of building a writing life, the trade-offs in terms of, you have to, have to pay for time, basically, you're sort of always thinking in terms of buying yourself time in order to write, in order to do the work… HMB: Particuarly as a parent. That seems quite clear, that delineation for people to have to pay someone to have any time for their writing and whether or not they'll make that back. AV: Yeah, and the example that she uses, that she comes back to quite a lot is Virginia Woolf, who wrote A Room of One's Own, lays out that idea very much in economic terms, I think it's, what, 500 pounds… HMB: 500 guineas! AV: 500 guineas, yeah, is what it takes for a woman to be able to have the time and space to write, but then goes into detail about how Virginia Woolf also, you know, inherited a large amount of money and had a live-in servant who she treated not super well, really going into the idea of being complicit in all these economic systems, being able to square that with doing the work that you want to and are compelled to do, and not having it, not thinking in absolutes of being one or the other I guess. HMB: Did you have a favourite revelation or elucidation from the book? Mine was Monopoly, how Monopoly as a game was originally created… AV:.. As an anticapitalist, or as a critique of capitalism? Yeah! HMB: Yes! (LAUGHS) AC: Oh it was actually amazing that there used to be two different ways to play Monopoly, one where you dominated, which is the game that we know now, and another where you would play and everyone would end up equal, and that has just completely disappeared into history. Yeah, wild. HMB: For some reason that struck me as somehow poetic. AV: Yeah, there's a lot of really beautiful poetic ironies all throughout the book, the one that's stuck with me the most is the one about Virginia Woolf and how on the one hand she was very much committed to this idea of women having time and space to write, but on the other hand the trade-offs that that came with, and the fact that she didn't always practice what she preached, and yet that coming across as not being discussed in order to quote unquote ‘cancel' Virginia Woolf or to discount her thinking, but to I guess complicate the thinking around that. AC: Yeah, I think the thing I loved about the book is that though it explores morality, there is kind of no moralising, and I think that that's what makes Eula Biss interesting and clear writer, and as you say Hayley, there's the kind of acknowledgement and interrogation of her own privilege, but it doesn't feel like self-flagellation or making excuses, it feel like it's interrogated with a kind of intellectual rigour that can be missing sometimes I think, in those acknowledgements. HMB: Because she gets into the real minutiae of it, as when she was talking about how a friend of hers doesn't want to pay a woman to clean the house because that's too intimate, but she'd pay someone to wax her bikini line, wax her legs, that's not too intimate. Everything's up for analysis, everything's up for dissemination. AC: Yeah, it just feels like she's sort of, takes a magnifying glass to things that are interesting to her and then distills down what they mean, or what they might mean. Or tell us into these incredibly kind of crisp, complete yet simple sentences, I mean it's just a joy to read along with. It's the kind of writing that makes you feel like you're thinking along with the writer, I think. HMB: Yes, it reminds me of Maggie Nelson like that. You feel much smarter. AC: Yep, Maggie Nelson, Ellena Savage, it's that kind of vibe like having a drink with your much smarter friend, but you sort of come away feeling intellectually energised by it. AV: Yeah, I think there's a lot of really strong parallels with, I would say, Ellena Savage's Blueberries in terms of that idea of having, yeah, like you say Alice, having a conversation with your very smart friend. Yeah, I found this super readable—for essays on capitalism and economics and class and things like that, it's probably one of the most readable experiences on that sort of topic I've had in a good while. The pieces are so short and so diary like in a very compulsive kind of way. You can just, ‘just one more, just one more,' sort of thing. HMB: As you were saying Alan, the real triumph of this work is that it's quite intimate and shows how threaded into our whole lives all of these concepts are, and she can talk about Nobel prize winners in economics, and how two people can win in the same year with completely contradictory theories about the market, and how we've created this beast qe don't even understand or can barely control. And I think it made me realise that something like economics, which, if you've never had any appetite for the subject, seems way more vague and subjective that I formerly imagined. AC: I think my favourite part was definitely the Work section, I found the kind of questions about what is work and what is labour, and how have our conceptions of what work means changed over time, and the delineations between paid work and unpaid work. They were just yeah, those kind of really interesting questions about labour and work and what they mean in the context of creative work and physical labour, drew me in. I mean I loved all of it, I felt like it had a real kind of, yeah, cumulative feeling with those short essays, and often the end of one essay would then spark the start of the next one. So you kind of had this feeling of being drawn on and led somewhere, which I really loved. AV: And the fact that these concepts that we know so inherently, like, things like we know what work is, we know what play is, but to actually sit down and think what is the difference between work and play, and the difference between work and labour, they're actually concepts that are so nebulous and so kind of buffeted by other forces, and so wound up in money and religion and things like that, like the ‘Protestant work ethic'. The book itself is a sort of interrogation of its own creation, which I think is really interesting because it's not apologising for its own creation, it's, if there's one thing Eula Biss definitely believes it is that the work is valuable, and her writing work is valuable. HMB: Hearing some intelligent person articulate that very notion, in a culture where arts degrees are about to double in price, and the idea of producing works of art is definitely seen as less than morally good in a culture that definitely doesn't celebrate art for art's sake. AV: Yeah, definitely. I think that working writers know that writing is work, but I think it's something that, it's too easy to be discounted as leisure or as play, and this is a valuable way of showing that it's not. There's a really great essay in The Cut which talks about the sort of self-awareness, writers interrogating self-awareness and sort of apologising for their own creation, and it's talking about Having and Being Had. There's a line from that essay that really stuck out of me, the essay's by Molly Fischer and it's at the very end of the piece, and it's: ‘Why read an essay or novel whose own author seems unconvinced it exists? Biss may be exhaustively self-aware, but she writes like her writing is work worth doing.' And I think that is a powerful thing in and of itself. HMB: That is very powerful. And I think I've long known that writing is work, but to have it reaffirmed that it's work worth doing was definitely not lost on me. AV: If you want to read more about the book and about Eula Biss, we actually on Kill Your Darlings are going to be having a interview between Khalid Warsame and Eula Biss on our website, so keep an eye out for that now. HMB: Now, let's talk about four-part SBS miniseries Hungry Ghosts. The Hungry Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the 7th month in the lunar calendar. It's the time Buddhists and Taoists believe the gates to hell open and spirits wander the earth. And this is the central story of the SBS new supernatural drama Hungry Ghosts, directed by Shawn Seet. And it's the haunting of an evil spirit named Quang, played by Vico Thai, released along with other hungry ghosts during the festival, and how their presence forces four families in contemporary Melbourne to confront their buried past. AC: So what did you guys think? Were you spooked? HMB: No. AV: Yes. (ALL LAUGH) My spooky tolerance is extremely low, so I thought the series was very well made, very compelling, very visually appealing. It's nice to see Footscray, community out there, it's nice to, gosh it's nice to see parts of Melbourne more than 5 km away. (AC & HMB LAUGH) Yeah, I think it was a really visually good-looking series, I think. HMB: That was the most redeeming feature for me, the cinematography, the use of refraction and shadow and light, cerulean blue and that sort of true red, and the gold accents, that was really lovely. AV: So you say that as in, I take that to mean you didn't find the series very compelling, Hayley? HMB: My partner's a composer for film, and he was watching it with me, and he was very disappointed in the score, which I think maybe his criticism in my ear didn't help, but because score has such an important part in creating tension and scare, I think that's part of why it was diffused for me, watching it with a hater. AC: I enjoyed it! I mean I found it scary and ominous and spooky, I guess, in the ways that you want from a horror or supernatural drama or whatever you want to classify it as, but for me the series just had a lot more depth than a traditional ghost story, because it features a cast of characters who are being haunted by their pasts the ghosts of those who have been killed in war, or those who've drowned fleeing by boat, so it was a lot more meaningful, I thought, than your traditional spooky monster who's just there to freak you out. It was about people grappling with guilt and remorse. I thought Ferdinand Hoang was amazing as Anh, and the actress who plays his wife, Gabrielle Chan, was brilliant as well. That was kind of my favourite subplot. HMB: Definitely agree that the more nuanced realistic intergenerational trauma parts were so much more compelling to me than the scares. AV: Yeah, I think my favourite of the storylines as well was the Nguyen family who run the grocer, and how the ghost is used in a literal and figurative sense, in terms of coming between them in their marriage. It's interesting because it's almost like there's two different types of ghost story happening at once in this piece, on the one hand you have the supernatural thriller with May and her family tracking down Quang and trying to put a stop to him, collecting these three souls in order to keep the gates of hell open. The others are trying to figure out why these ghosts have appeared to them rather than necessarily trying to stop them, I suppose. And so there's sort of two ghost stories happening at the same time. And so sometimes I feel like the overlap, I was trying to find the connection between those two types of stories, and how the ghosts related to one another, and how the families sort of related to one another, I almost feel like sometimes that got a little bit muddled, but for the most part I actually kind of respected how the show respected the intelligence of the viewer. HMB: Which is not easy to do with only four episodes, I mean it takes me a couple of episodes to warm up to the world building of any new series. AC: I love a shorter series, I kind of think it's kind of, you know, know wat you're gonna do and do it. My big critique of all Netflix things is that everything is about 40 per cent longer than it needs to be. HMB: True. And the mark of more artistic credibility to leave people wanting rather than to milk it until there's nothing left, but I did think of you, Alan, and your criticism of Stateless in terms of how the Anglo-Australian cast members were headlined to promote this series, the Stockton family cast appear first in the end credit, and if their presence was necessarily, necessary? AV: I kind of thought that yeah, the Bryan Brown character Neil Stockton, the war photographer, I thought he was not a necessarily super fleshed-out character. With the Nguyen family with Anh and Lien they kind of dealt with flashbacks really quite well, and then to have the Neil Stockton character really only use monologues to talk about his experience in Vietnam, I think left me a little bit cold. HMB: I know what you mean, I felt like I could see the script. You know, when you're seeing someone act and you think ‘oh, here's some acting,' you're not immersed in it. AC: I do think it's worthwhile though, in a show that is about the Vietnamese community in Australia, interrogating Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. I agree he wasn't the most compelling character, but there was a reason for that storyline to be there, I thought. HMB: True, and criticisms aside, Hungry Ghosts was an achievement on many levels, a contribution to Australian storytelling in a way that I don't think any of us can fully register if you aren't a Vietnamese Australian or an Asian Australian, what that representation would mean. AC: Yeah, and wonderful I thought to see Footscray on screen, and parts of Melbourne that yeah, you've never seen on TV before, I haven't at least. AV: What you were saying about sort of Netflix shows sometimes being too long and this one being shorter and I definitely agree with the principle in terms of, if you drag things out too much then you can get a bit sort of baggy, but again without giving anything away, I felt like that the ending of this series felt a little bit rushed and I would have liked to spend a little bit more time getting to know some of the characters in their relationships to one another, rather than just in terms of how it facilitated the plot. HMB: I felt that most profoundly in the romance development. I feel like they would have had some erst and let that build a bit more… AV: Oh yeah, yeah. HMB:.. Had they had more time. AV: Yeah. I think for me I mostly found that in the the second generation Nguyen family, Gareth Yuen playing Paul, the son of Anh and Lien. HMB: When he spoke about his father dealing with post-traumatic stress from being in the Vietnam war, we got a little teaser of a much more complex and interesting aspect of that character, and how he had to be the one who held the family together and bought his mother over here, and the depth that was hinted at in a few conversations he had with his wife intimated that there was a lot more to him. AV: Yeah, definitely. Some of those characters I would have liked to spend more time with, but I mean I guess that's, as much as I frame that as a criticism, it also means that they were interesting characters that I wanted to know more about, and wanted to get more into their lives, because they were, for the limited time they they are on screen, well drawn characters and they're well acted for the most part, I think maybe Bryan Brown, yeah, he is a good actor, but I feel like maybe this wasn't the best performances of his that I've seen. Catherine Van-Davies, as May Le, who's called the protagonist of the of the series, I suppose, I think she was great, I had a really enjoyable time watching the series. AC: Yeah, it's interesting what you say about the ending feeling a bit rushed, Alan, because I just feel like that's something that's very hard to do with horror or thrillers, and I think it's, like, a really difficult thing to do because if it's too long then it sort of loses the charge that it needs, but if it's too quick, it feels rushed, I don't know, I feel like with horror or thrillers I always have a slight feeling of dissatisfaction at the end, it's a bit like, you know, when everything gets wrapped up. HMB: That is a good point Alice, it isn't easy to wrap up anything in the horror genre in a perfectly neat or satisfying way. Don't take our word for it, if you would like to check it out, it is available free to stream via SBS On Demand. Check it out. AC: If you want to get scared! (LAUGHS) HMB: Or… AC: Or not, if you're Hayley. (ALL LAUGH) HMB: I I think that might be actually good, because some people might be turned off something that's scary. If I'm not scared you'll be fine. AC: And what else have you guys been watching, or reading or listening to, and top culture picks? HMB: A good culture pick in tandem with Eula Biss' Having and Being Had is ContraPoints, her video on opulence, talking about not just wealth but the aesthetics of wealth, and visually very stunning, but also have some really interesting insight. One of her insights that I thought of while reading Having and Being Had was ‘Donald Trump is a poor person's idea of a rich person', I think that's Annie Leibovitz's quote, people who are born into wealth usually exhibit taste that's more restrained, and how his Nouveau Riche aesthetic is part of what makes him seem accessible and aspirational. I recommend ContraPoints, as always. AV: And this is a YouTube channel, isn't it? HMB: YouTube channel. AC: I've actually, that's a good segue, I've been listening to a podcast called Rabbit Hole, which is about YouTube, or about the YouTube rabbit hole, and follows a young man who basically was radicalised online by right wing YouTube videos. The whole series is just like a kind of deeper dive exploration into what algorithms mean for basically like, destroying a sense of shared civic reality, because people are just drawn into these different rabbit holes. And yeah, also about like ethics in tech, what are the responsibilities that tech companies have, what's overreach? Yeah, it's a really compelling story that has a personal angle, but looks at some really big issues about what the internet is doing to us and to democracy really, so I'd recommend that. HMB: That's a good segue because that's how I learnt about Contrapoints in the first place, when listening to that. AC: Oh, cool! AV: I've started listening to The Cut's new podcast, hosted by Avery Trufelman, formerly of 99% Invisible, and a really, another really great podcast called Nice Try!, and a particular, an episode that I really enjoyed recently, it's about the meme that was going around in the early days of coronavirus talking about ‘nature is healing, we are the virus,' and the problematic, sort of eco-fascist sentiments behind that, about the idea of humans being separate from nature, and how that really, you know, erases a lot of Indigenous relationship with the land, and so, and it's, yeah, just a really well produced, snappy really informative really engaging podcast. I really recommend it. The other thing that I was going to mention is that I've been reading Kylie Maslen's new book, Show Me Where It Hurts, which is a collection of essays talking about living with an invisible illness. There's a couple of essays in there that actually began life on Kill Your Darlings back in the day, when Kylie was KYD New Critic back in 2018 and then another piece as well from 2017 called ‘Ask Me How I Am', which has been sort of expanded out in that collection, and yeah, they're really engaging, really thought provoking, really enjoyable to read collection. And that book's just out this month from Text Publishing. HMB: Also, don't forget… AC: New Australian Fiction 2020 from Kill Your Darlings, a wonderful collection of short stories. AV: Highly recommended. HMB: But where can I purchase this? AC: At killyourdarlings.com.au. AV: Or from your local independent bookstore, or you can ask for it at your local library as well. HMB: You've both given me some great things to read and listen to and think about, thank you. AV: Thanks Hayley. AC: No worries, catch you soon. HMB: Catch you soon, bye! (MUSIC)

It's Seventh Month guys… be careful where you're stepping! Don't worry though, because Shann gives us some insight about what this month-long Chinese festival is all about! We also discuss some information that sheds light on why you'll see your Chinese neighbours burning offerings outside their houses. Honda then goes on to tell us about Ed Kemper (Mindhunter fans, you out there?) aka the co-ed killer… who isn't only massive in size but also has a big brain and a large murder count. And then Shann goes to share about a Hungry Ghost Festival story where a child encounters a spirit… just because of a careless mistake made by a family member. There's also a sprinkle of Shann's own Seventh Month experience… making it all the more creepy. After all, killers and spirits are just things… Hidden Among Us.

In conjunction with Hungry Ghost Festival, we want to know whether would you rather see a ghost but can't hear them or hear a ghost but can't see them?

We are in the 2nd phase of the Circuit Breaker in Singapore and it seems like the Hungry Ghost Festival comes early this year. Listen to HAPAPAP Podcast Episode 116 to find out what the hell we are talking about. Skip Links 00:24 Hungry Ghost comes early in 2020. 01:36 What are the ghosts doing? 04:50 We got extra holiday in 2020. 06:36 Did you notice the weeds are growing? 11:19 Home business owners: Do you check in into your own house daily? 13:40 Stan Lee also coming back this year.

On today's show, the guys talk about Ghost and Horror movies since its the beginning of the Hungry Ghost Festival. Of course, there is a lot of nonsense in between, but then again thats the show! Listen to us every Sunday where we talk nonsense, more nonsense and nothing but nonsense Spotify | https://spoti.fi/2JxhYrC Apple podcast | http://bit.ly/theytfshow Google podcast | http://bit.ly/ytfshow Stitcher | https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=417648 Castbox | http://bit.ly/theYTF Youtube Clips | http://bit.ly/ytfclips

[ratings] [audio:http://penanghokkien.com/media/PgHkn-2015-08-31.mp3] ((( iPhone & iPad users CLICK HERE to LISTEN ))) Guests: Oo Tsut Bi, Oo Peh Ki, Oo Theng, Peh Theng, A Boy, Sng Tu, Kue Sann Ni, Moo Moo Gu, Tua Suann Kha, Rumah Panjang, & A Han. First of all, Happy 58th Merdeka! I'm with all of you in spirit, celebrating the most beautiful Merdeka I've ever witnessed. There were so many episodes on PGHK on the Hungry Ghost Festival, but this is probably the most educational for me. I hope it is for you. Of course, there's always food and jokes involved! Follow me on: Twitter @johnong Instagram: @John.Ong (((DOWNLOAD AUDIO FILE)))

[audio:http://penanghokkien.com/media/PgHkn-2012-09-03.mp3] ((( iPhone & iPad users CLICK HERE to LISTEN ))) Guests: Chha Ke Sai, Bo· Mo· Peh, Ah Boy, Ah Tau, Kari Mo· Chit Chhok. A few of us who do not have much knowledge about the Ghost Month, talked to a few listeners with lots of knowledge. We learned that you should watch out on what you say if you're there at the Hungry Ghost Festival celebration. Hope you have a safe celebration. (((DOWNLOAD AUDIO FILE)))

Guests: Hiao Lok, Pong Pah, Kuku TengTeng & Hao Tniao As many Chinese Penangites are observing the Hungry Ghost Festival, we on Penang Hokkien are joining in and share our experience and stories from the younger generations. I have learned quite a few things from my guests. If you are a chicken, don't worry, it's not very scary at all.