Household Spirits [1] are ghosts that serves and protects a home they adopt.
History[]
Insight Tobin's Spirit Guide[]
Household Spirits were most common in European communities but a limited number were brought over to North America by immigrants. It was practice to invite Household Spirits into one's household. When they accepted the invitation, they assumed multiple duties to the household's benefit. [2] They have been known to conduct domestic house chores, ward off evil spirits, and share premonitions. Domoviye's premonitions ranged from laughter to signal good times ahead, sobbing to signal bad times, strumming a comb to signal a wedding, and turning visible to foretell a death in the family. The Household Spirits demanded respect for their services and forgiveness for the occasional mischief. Household Spirits have been documented to have fun by breaking plates, eating desserts, and drinking beer. Domoviye have been known to pinch their human hosts while they slept. Offended Household Spirits are placated by a ritual of making a loud apology, tossing salt over the left shoulder, and leaving a gift of tobacco or beer. In some cases, the usual ritual failed and the spirit either vacated the home or became aggressive until the human host was driven out, alive or dead. [3]
Tertiary Canon History[]
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed[]
Sometime before 1920, John Horace Tobin went to the village of Ghent in Belgium on a case. He discovered the villagers were overrun by Household spirits that got drunk on the local ale supply. Tobin sequestered the majority of the spirits and sobered them up.[4]
Types[]
Three kinds of Household Spirits are the Domoviye from Russia, the Brownie from Scotland, and the Kobold from Germany.
Classification[]
The Household Spirits are invisible Class 3 entities that are generally corporeal enough to affect the environment. [5] [6]
See Also[]
Appearances[]
Secondary Canon Appearances[]
- Insight Editions
- Tobin's Spirit Guide
- Section II: Assorted Apparitions
- Page 35
- Section II: Assorted Apparitions
- Tobin's Spirit Guide
- IDW Comics
Tertiary Canon Appearances[]
- Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed
- Mentiond in Tobin Page #3.
References[]
- ↑ Narrator (2016). Insight Editions- "Tobin's Spirit Guide" (2016) (Book p.35). Paragraph reads: "Common in European communities, household spirits---such as the Russian domoviye, Scottish brownie, or German kobold---were eventually brought to North America by immigrants, albeit in limited numbers."
- ↑ Narrator (2016). Insight Editions- "Tobin's Spirit Guide" (2016) (Book p.35). Paragraph reads: "Once they have accepted an invitation to join a human household, they tend to assume multiple duties---anything from common domestic chores to warding off evil spirits and providing their hosts with premonitions of the future."
- ↑ Narrator (2016). Insight Editions- "Tobin's Spirit Guide" (2016) (Book p.35). Paragraph reads: "The most common involves a loud apology, tossing salt over one's left shoulder, and leaving out a gift of tobacco or beer. But sometimes, no apology is enough."
- ↑ Tobin; Tobin Page #3 (2023). Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed – Ghost Realm (2023) (PS4/PS5/PC/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/Nintendo Switch). Illfonic. Tobin says: "I'd almost forgotten about this one! I received a letter in the post requesting my assistance in Ghent, a village in Belgium. My Flemish-Dutch was a bit rusty, and I knew not entirely what I was committing to beforehand. By the time I got there, I discovered the entire bloody village to be overrun by household spirits! Semi-invisible little shites, helpful in practice but mischievous little hellions should they fall out of routine. Well this lot had gotten into a snifter of the local ale supply, and run entire families out of their little, sad hovels, drunkenly smashing plates. I managed to sequester the bulk and sober them up, but mark my words, good help is hard to find."
- ↑ Narrator (2016). Insight Editions- "Tobin's Spirit Guide" (2016) (Book p.35). Paragraph reads: "CLASS III. CORPOREAL."
- ↑ Narrator (2016). Insight Editions- "Tobin's Spirit Guide" (2016) (Book p.35). Paragraph reads: "These spirits are invisible but generally corporeal enough to affect their environment."
- ↑ 35-N Memo (2018). IDW Comics- "Ghostbusters Crossing Over Issue #3" (2018) (Comic p.22). Memo reads: "We had assumed that Dimension 35-N was largely devoid of significant spectral activity due to a lack of an obvious Ghostbusters operation; it turns out that the lack of obvious Ghostbusters is because the role was taken on by a group of household helper spirits that considered the entirety of New York City to be their household."
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