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** Everyone knows that the Norseman's version of heaven is Valhalla, a great feast hall where the honored dead spend all day fighting each other (training for Ragnarok) and all night partying with Odin and the Valkyries. But that's actually only half-true. Asgard actually had ''two'' palaces for the honored dead, the other one being Sessrúmnir, Frigga's hall. Presumably, this was similar to Valhalla, but seeing as very little surviving texts give any detail of it, Valhalla gets all the attention.
** Loki was a full-blooded jotun, not a half-jotun, and he was not blood-related to any of the Asgardians. This notion probably got started by ''[[The Mighty Thor]]''.
* [[Yokai]] are often called "Japanese ghosts" by Western fans of anime, manga, and/or Japanese film. While many stories of Yokai do suggest they were formally-living humans, they are more demonic representations of unexplainable things, like disease, bad weather, or negative emotions. The true term for a "Japanese ghost" would be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABrei Yūrei], which also appear frequently in Eastern media. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1DSaJVPVms (A good analysis of the difference is given here.)]
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