The other spirits were watching her, as they thought she acted so strangely.

Perhaps, even at the darkest times, my mother's spirit watched over me.

Some people believed that the good spirits, or the Creator, would watch over them no matter what.

Did she somehow know that he, or at least some spirit, was watching invisibly?

The spirits of the dead can watch what the living do and turn them to stone by staring at them.

If a mother died, then she might be buried under the hut of the children, so that her spirit could watch over them.

She plants the beans in the hope that the spirit of her father will watch and recognize her as his daughter.

Many Maori people believe that the spirits of the gods and the dead are watching the living.

He wondered if his father's spirit was close by and watching and decided that it probably wasn't.

May the good spirits watch over them and take their souls to the Light.