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Preta, Peta or Yidak is the name for a type of supernatural being characterized in Buddhist, Sikh, Jain and Hindu texts that undergoes more than human suffering, particularly an extreme degree of hunger and thirst, thus they are named as the hungry ghosts, from the Chinese, which in turn is derived from later Indian sources generally followed in Mahayana Buddhism.

In the previous life, the Pretas are believed to have been jealous or greedy people. As a result of their karma, they are afflicted with an insatiable hunger for a particular substance or object. In most traditional way, this is something repugnant or humiliating, such as human remains or feces, though in more recent stories, it can be anything, however bizarre.

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