The seen and unseen: Belief in Jinns, Marian apparitions and Japanese yokai

Podcast: God Forbid · ABC Australia

Opublikowano: 2026-05-29

Halloween, in the western Christian tradition, remembers the dead – saints, martyrs, and all the faithful departed. But why do so many believe the departed return? Regardless of the place on earth, or time in history, people say they see strange apparitions and ghostly figures. And as for things unseen, even more profess a belief in genies, spirits, angels and supernatural entities. All these ideas and feelings are traditionally laid bare in this realm of the supernatural, the boundaries of dark and light, good and evil, in our human imagination. That’s why God F...