Meanings
- uncountableBelief in ghosts.
Immortal-soulism, spiritism, ghostism, all spring from a fabulous or mythical source. Corporeity is characteristic of being.
1883, David D. Paterson, Zion's Waymarks, Or, Knowledge Vs. Mystery, page 1051 more example
This degradation took the forms of belief in Sheol (Hades) and in necromancy. Both of them were forms of ghostism. The first was a conception that the spirits of the departed remained associated somehow with their bodies and with the place of burial.
1900, John Caldwell Calhoun Clarke, Man and His Divine Father, page 139
Origin
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