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[Bruno]

Originally Posted by jason taylor

Someone else more up on Chinese lore might have a better picture. But it seems rather like ancestor venerators would just come up with a nicer picture.

Nope. Chinese mythology has all kinds of ghosts who either can't get into Heaven, or won't, along with ghoulish monsters and green- or white-furred vampires (the Chinese 'Hopping' Vampire is particularly notorious).

Romans were big on Ancestor worship, as were the Etruscans before them - specifically because if you didn't do it right, they would get angry. I understand many other cultures have the same belief.