Psychopomp vs Wraith - What's the difference?
psychopomp | wraith |
Someone who guides the souls of the dead to the afterlife.
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A ghost or specter, especially seen just after a person's death.
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As nouns the difference between psychopomp and wraith
is that psychopomp is someone who guides the souls of the dead to the afterlife while wraith is a ghost or specter, especially seen just after a person's death.psychopomp
English
(wikipedia psychopomp)Noun
(en noun)- For most of us, Dr Wilder Penrose was our aimiable Prospero, the psychopomp who steered our darkest dreams towards the daylight.
wraith
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing. }}