ghost bride
Dead woman's wedding
A ghost bride is a woman married to a dead man in a ceremony intended to provide the deceased with a spouse in the afterlife.
The practice exists in certain Chinese and other East Asian traditions, where families may seek brides—sometimes deceased women, sometimes living—for sons who died unmarried.
His family arranged a ghost bride for him after the accident.
The term also appears in fiction and folklore featuring spectral or undead brides.
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- veilFabric that obscures
- weddingMarriage rite and feast
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- hauntedOccupied by ghosts
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- Female Spiritsbanshee, La Llorona, lady in white, white lady, valkyrie
- Chinese Mythologycreation story, Jade Emperor, white snake, celestial beings, fox spirits
- Louisiana Folklorevoodoo, hoodoo, traiteur, Evangeline, voodoo queen
- Asian DeitiesAmaterasu, kami, Buddha, Tara, storm god
- ghostsapparitions, apparition, phantoms, specter, specters
- ___ bride
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