Ghost sake

• Kuchisake-onna (口裂け女 Kuchisake-onna?) ("Slit-Mouth Woman") in Japanese mythology, is a woman who is mutilated by a jealous husband and returns as a malicious spirit. The Kuchisake-onna legend became popular enough to cause some panic in Japan during the 1980s, and there are even reports of schools asking children to go home in groups for safety.

• Not to forget, either, is the old sense of 'ghost', linked to the modern German word 'Geist':

• • 1.(obsolete) The spirit; the soul of man.

   Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. — Spenser

• • 2.The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

   The mighty ghosts of our great Harries rose. — Shakespeare.
   I thought that I had died in sleep/And was a blessed ghost. — Coleridge