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This is an archived sub-idea under Design - Reinventing the haunted house.

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At least for a haunted house inside the forest (Forest arc), I would like the haunting to have something to do with ancestry.

Ancestry is something my present culture disregards, yet ancestry has been important to most cultures throughout history.

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God Himself puts much weight upon ancestry in the Bible.

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I want to have examples of good and bad approaches to ancestry. Ancestors should neither be ignored nor worshiped.

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Sometimes it seems like people worship their ancestors because they themselves wants to be worshiped and in some sense live forever when they are dead.

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In a way this idea works well, and in a way, it is too over-the-top for how I’d like to employ ancestral themes. Part of the purpose of the haunted home idea is to zoom in, where I want to explore ancestral themes in broader, more communal settings.

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