The priest Muso legendarily encountered an example of these entitites known as a jikiniki.
A seven-section scroll at the Kyoto National Museum describes the journey of some these entities known as gaki. The priest Muso legendarily encountered an example of these entitites known as a jikiniki. In China, it's traditionally considered unlucky to get married during the month in which the festival named for these entities occurs. These entities dwell in a realm that is considered to be more punishing than that of the animals, but less punishing than any of the narakas; that realm is called the (*) preta realm. The Zhongyuan festival is dedicated to the appeasement of these beings, some of which are unable to quench their desires and sate it through feeding on corpses, leading them to be known as "hungry" in many Asian traditions. For 10 points, identify these spectral manifestations of dead people.
A seven-section scroll at the Kyoto National Museum describes the journey of some these entities known as gaki.
(hungry) ghosts [or hungry spirits or hungry corpses or really any form of undead that have hunger; accept pretas until it is read; prompt on spirits or souls or dead people or similar things; accept anything mentioning ancestors due to possible conflation with the Chinese clues]