From Physorg.com, A professor has looked at various stories from ancient Rome and Greece and has linked ghost stories with death and its rituals. I like scary stories and movies so knowing that ancient peoples have a liking for the same is not too surprising. And leads me to wonder what stories were told about the Neolithic fire before going to sleep. I can imagine a storyteller setting the scene of a great hunt and during this pursuit, one of the hunters is killed. And his fellows stop immediately to gather up some flowers and get his belongs to place in the burial chamber that they create. And this storyteller reminds the listeners that it is selfish to butcher the meat before the hunter is put to rest so that his spirit will not come to frighten and plea to go onward.