A wandering soul is, according to some traditions, folklore and mythologies, the ghost of a man or woman who has not voluntarily made the journey to transcend to a higher plane after death, being reduced to a shadow, well because He has decided, either because of fear of Hell, of Purgatory or of shame, or because he has not received funeral honors, or because he has not been buried according to the rite of his religion, or because his body has never been found, as in the case of case of many sailors. Since he can not receive the homage nor the sacrifices of his descendants, they are hungry and desperate souls. They must be clearly differentiated from the souls in pain.
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