Why do female ghosts bring more fear to people?

When watching ghost movies, we may find a phenomenon: the ghost played by the female ghost and the child is more gruesome than the male ghost. This phenomenon is particularly prominent in Japanese and South Korean ghost films, and even gives people the feeling that there are only female ghosts in Japanese and South Korean ghost films. And children as the leading role of ghost, also can achieve the horror effect of female ghost, it seems that the horror of ghost films are given priority to by women and children, why would it be so?

Is it because according to the Yin and Yang theory, men belong to the Yang and women belong to the Yin, so ghosts are the stuff of the underworld, so female ghosts are more scary? So why do Americans and Europeans with cultural differences, or those who have never heard of the Yin-yang theory, still fear female ghosts more than male ghosts?

Let's take a look at what great white sharks in nature are now afraid of.

Sharks don't seem to have changed much over the eons. Their structures are perfectly adapted to Marine environments from ancient times to the present, and many of the instincts they use today have implications for the roots of human behavior.

The oceans of ancient times were very different from today's. Great white sharks were prey to megalodon back then. In order to survive, great white sharks had to have their own warning mechanism.

Now cetologists have discovered that a pod of killer whales off the east Coast of the United States has developed a way to subdue and eat great white sharks by putting them into an "immobile state," shatting the old belief that they were at the top of the food chain. But it also found that the loss of a shark would prompt other sharks to flee the area, leading to a decline in the number of great white sharks in the area compared to previous years. The reason is that shark carcasses release chemicals that let other sharks know that an animal just killed another shark. The substance, which scares sharks and makes them flee, is now the main ingredient in shark repellents.

It can be said that fear comes from death.

Similarly, for humans, bloody corpses, hideous corpse faces and human skeletons can make people feel fear, and this fear may have been generated before the emergence of human culture, or even before apes, which is most likely the original source of "ghosts" that people are afraid of.

And the fresher the corpse or the stump, the stronger the impact. However, the corpse itself is not aggressive. What is the scariest thing about nature for us before culture, even when we were apes? In the case of the great white shark, a bold guess is that it wasn't the carcass itself that humans were afraid of, but "a predator that was probably still lurking around the carcass."

The fresher a corpse is, the more likely it is that predators are still around. Therefore, keeping a safe distance from other corpses is of great significance to human survival. After all, the human race was once in danger of extinction, so we retained this commonality, which is good for our survival, and it still helps us keep out of danger.

As human originated in Africa began to explore the world and looking for a better living environment, human will face predators also have been changing with the different of regional, so for humans, dangerous to the identity of the unknown always happen to them, but leave is the same - the remains of the victims.

Over time, mutilated bodies become more and more associated with danger. Just as the death of one shark can cause a whole school of sharks to flee, but other sharks do not know what killed each other, humans do not know what attacked the victim when they see the body. At the same time, with the continuous progress of human civilization, "dangerous" bodies were gradually described by words and languages, and "horrible" bodies were eventually transformed into "ghosts", which is the origin of ghosts.

Higher primates tend to live in groups. Our closest relatives, mountain gorillas (the basis for the movie King Kong), chimpanzees, macaques, baboons and so on, live in groups and are guarded by strong males, while females are weaker.

In nature, where there is no guarantee, predators seek maximum gain with minimum cost.

The same is true for human predators, so females and young children are the first choice for predators. In addition, women during pregnancy, breastfeeding mobility, children to the natural enemies of the weak guard; , by contrast, adult men always armed, hunting together, is the main defenders populations (similar to today's Africa marcelo) and so on factors, as a result, in the process of the evolution of the early human, is the number of natural enemies to kill women and children are far more than men, makes the human see the remains of women and infants and young children are far more than men. Combined with the development of human "ghost" culture, naturally, female ghost and child ghost to our fear, will be much higher than the male ghost.

Directors understand that the public is more afraid of what ghosts, so now in ghost films, female ghosts and ghosts will be popular.