Thanh Minh

spirit · Vietnam · Southeast Asia

Not independently attested as a folkloric creature. In Vietnamese culture 'Thanh Minh' (Qingming) is the grave-sweeping festival of early April, a solar term for honoring the dead, not a wandering ghost of cold months. No source documents such a spirit tempting the living into the cold; the record conflates the festival's name with general beliefs about restless souls.

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