wandering spirit
Restless incorporeal entity
A wandering spirit is a ghost or soul that roams without rest, unable or unwilling to pass on to an afterlife.
The phrase appears in folklore, religion, and horror fiction to describe spirits bound to earth by unfinished business, violent death, or spiritual unease: The old house was said to be haunted by a wandering spirit.
Figuratively, someone with a wandering spirit is restless by nature, drawn to travel and resistant to settling down.
- ghostApparition of the dead
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- nomadHomeless wanderer by choice
- restlessUnable to be still
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- poetic phrasesonce upon a time, happily ever after, star-crossed lovers, sweet sorrow, eternal flame
- spiritsghost, vodka, rum, whiskey, brandy
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
- undeadzombie, vampire, ghost, lich, skeleton
wandering spiritguardian spirit
Protective supernatural being
ancestral spirit · protective spirit · spirit guide · penates · genius loci
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