Ethnic-Chinese Indonesians throw "hell money", prepared as offerings for their ancestors' souls into the air during the "hungry ghost" festival in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Binsar ...

Painstakingly, women of retirement age adorn sheet after sheet of yellow joss paper with gold and silver leaf and red paint to satisfy last orders for sacrificial cash offerings ahead of next month's ...

Honoring dead ancestors is a tradition found across cultures—think Mexico’s Día de los Muertos or Japan’s Obon festival. But few observances are as vivid as the Hungry Ghost Festival, which originated ...

As the story goes, in the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar, the gates of hell burst open. Voracious and sometimes vengeful ghosts cross over the threshold from the world of the dead and ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The Hungry Ghost Festival, an annual celebration that takes place during the seventh month of the Chinese ...