The joint is removed to placate the ancestral ghosts.

He was mad, Duras knew; Archer possessed his mind and soul like an ancestral ghost.

In the Trobriands conception was the work of ancestral ghosts; nobody had ever heard of a father.

Robin's weak crimes stir his ancestral ghosts from their usual haunt of the castle's portrait gallery.

Among drums and chants, a voice invokes ancestral ghosts.

The most prominent ancestral ghosts are named and wheat flour and the blood of sacrificial animals are poured on the graves.

They were easy to find in the midst of all these mock werewolves, vampires, ancestral ghosts, and decadent aristocrats.

Like an ancestral ghost come back to haunt the place, the gray shape moved up the steps, undiscerned by servants who were in the lower hall.

The Romans referred to them as 'the good people', and each household had its own retinue of such ancestral ghosts.

The novel is, essentially, a simple tale of ancestral ghosts driving and tormenting the living over several generations.