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finnic folklore, and I'm pretty sure uralic folklore too, doesn't have malevolent ghosts, or even any kind of permanent ghosts
traditionally dead people could leave temporary ghosts (more like apparitions, on their own none of the three souls or the body had any power); usually one of their souls would hang around for a bit in familiar places; in modern times this is still the case although it's conceived as a fragment of the one and only soul a person has hanging around
in addition to that evil isn't a valid concept in the traditional finnic/uralic worldview so even if a ghost did stick around and somehow was powerful enough to interact with the world, it would have no reason to harm people by haunting or killing them since it has no reasons or needs to kill for, like humans have greed or anger and animals have hunger and territory
no shapeshifters either, non-humans couldn't appear as human
even very westernised cityfolk somehow don't believe in western type ghosts, it just never caught on probably because of how incongruent it is
