As in Proper Dharma Mindfulness Sutra
1. Energy feeding ghost: if one's body is weak or seriously ill,
unless look after by another person, and were to allow these ghosts
to suck away one's energy, one will die.
2. Dharma feeding ghost: they get full when listening to people
preaching good deeds or Dharma.
3. Water feeding ghost: live by drains or river side, water as
their food. so infants and kids should not play near drains or
river side.
4. Blood feeding ghost: often dwell at slaughtering house or wet
market, meat selling store. Blood as their food. Love to go near
women with menstruation. Hence women should be more careful when
cleaning and disposing, so as to avoid affinity with them.
5. Vomit feeding ghost: often approach people who drink alcohol.
Even more love those that are drunk, so as to feed on their
vomits.
6. Dung (smell) feeding ghost: often hide near dark places where
there are pile of excrement.
7. Spit feeding ghost: love to stay closed people who have the
habits of spitting phlegm. Gets excited when people cough, gargle,
or clearing throat.
8. Hair feeding ghost: Live around barber store, Love infant's
hair, or hair of young ladies who are not married.
9. Can't feeding ghost: often look for things/food to feed, but
don't know what to feed, hence often live in hunger.
10. Wicked hoping ghost: Hope that people can cultivate wicked
deeds, and such spirit of wickedness is their satisfaction.
11. Meat feeding ghost: Love to feed on dead smelly animal
carcasses, germ infection. Untie, unhygienic rubbish area, are also
their favour place.
12. Child feeding ghost: They feed on children's energy/chi
blood.
13. Infant feces examining ghost: peep on baby pass motion. Can get
attached/affinity to the baby.
14. Dung examining ghost: Like to breath in the heatness of
excrement. Avoid doing it outdoors.
15. Energy feeding ghost: Normal for those who are at their dead
bed.
16. Fire stove roast feeding ghost: Dwell in places where there's
BBQ, they love the smell of food being roosted.
17. Blazing ghost: Due to strong resentment when alive.
18. Perfume feeding ghost: Crowd around ladies wearing
perfumes.
19. Underground ghost: dwell in dark damp caves, gradually can
cause epidemic, plague.
20. Traveling ghost: At night, they will lean against the wall;
feet don't touch the ground, and can move very fast.
21. Guardian hungry ghost: Body are as Black as charcoal. Love to
go near losers and lazy women who seldom use cooking stove, so as
to hide in the cold stove.
22. pinhole-sized mouths hungry ghost: Big tummy, eat but not able
to swallow, experience great suffering of hunger.
23. Spiritual-powered ghost: Like to borrow people's spiritual
energy to preach myths, do ghost matters, entice, mislead people,
so that people avoid doing good and lead them to ghost realm
instead.
24. Lust ghost: love to go near lascivious people, lead people to
do lascivious things, wait to enter into the womb of pregnant women
for rebirth. When born as human, they are also lustful, hence
interfering the human realm.
25. Sea-shore residing ghost: live by the bank of sea, waiting for
a body of substitute.
26. Ghost on mission: like ghost magistrate of hell realm, punish
ghosts who commit offenses.
27. Dirty alley living ghost: as long as the alley is dirty,
contaminated, filthy, they'll love it.
28. Charcoal soil feeding ghost: mostly living in grave yard, so as
to feed on the warm of the charcoal soil.
29. Tree dwelling ghost: dwells within the tree or under the tree;
sometimes manifest as tree spirits to confuse foolish people to
worship.
30. Danger zone ghost: live in traffic bound area; distract people
with evil thoughts into being lost on the road, leading to
accidents.
31. Wilderness dwelling ghost: live in the wild, open field,
countryside, jungles etc.
32. Wind feeding ghost: like to feed on odor of night dwelling
people.
33. Charcoal feeding ghost: feed on charcoal essence.
34. Poisons feeding ghost: like to breath in the fume of different
poisons.
35. Asura ghost: wicked ghost, dark complexion with greed eyes, the
female of these ghosts often manifest into beautiful women.
36. Suicide feeding ghost: such ghosts usually became ghost after
committing suicide; often look for opportunities to help foolish
people commit suicide.
Note: Beings of Ghost realm are many (not just 36 kind), due to
people's different obsessions.
