Different peoples of the world have their own beliefs about death. And every nation has myths and legends about ghosts that portend the imminent death of a person.
Ghosts are the harbingers of death
In France there is a legend about the spirit-death named Ancu. This ghost roams the northern French province of Brittany. Anku pushes in front of her an old cart, which creaks horribly. It is in this cart that the ghost throws the dead. There is no exact description of Anku, because when people hear the creak of the cart, people hide. It is believed that the person who saw Anka immediately ends up in his creaky cart. Anku looks thin and gaunt, wearing a hat on her head and a sharp braid of human bones on her shoulder.
According to legend, Anku is the soul of Cain, who committed the first fratricide. People say that for the first murder in human history, the Devil made him the ghost of death.
Ireland has its own spirit of death, and its name is Banshee. Local people say that he is a harbinger of imminent death, three days before the death of a person, Banshee begins to howl.
In Scotland, there are legends about the Barghest, who roams the cemeteries at night. Unlike other spirits, he does not look like a person, he looks like a huge dog with bright red eyes.
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In Bavaria, there are legends about a huge death ghost who lives on the top of a high mountain in the Alps. His name is Brokken. They say that he buries the dead in this mountain, and the mountain itself is thousands of rotten corpses of long-dead people.
In India, the spirits of death are called pretas. These ghosts have very small mouths, so they are always hungry. The pretas constantly kill people to get their fill.
In central Africa, people believe that after death, a person's soul moves into a tree. And the person who cuts the tree will die immediately.