He raced to the old man's family to tell them what he had seen, so that they could find a better final resting place for the man. Thus, ancestral ghosts find they have no choice but to appear when they are disturbed or in trouble-when their graves have been flooded, when their corpses have been impaled by the roots of a tree, when no one has come to make offerings for a long time and they haven't a cent to their name. Can't get no. . . There are many old women at the Hsing Tien Temple in Taipei who help people to recover hun or po that have been lost in a moment of shock, fright, or surprise. A living person filled with vitality has a complete complement of hun and po.
Souls are the basis of human spiritual life-thought, emotion, memory.
The po, or sources of vitality, are the motive force behind physical processes-movement, growth, and so on. Ghosts, with souls but no sources of animation, have feelings and memories from their lives, and retain intellectual skills like the ability to play chess or music. But their bodies are very frail. The physical functions in zombies, meanwhile, remain strong. Not only do their hair and fingernails continue to grow, but their petrified bodies have superhuman strength, and they can smash through doors with ease.