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Preta, also known as "hungry ghost" or "gaki", originate from Buddhism. They are pitiful humanoid creatures who happens to be reincarnated human beings due to dependably unjust behaviors they have done in their past lives. Those creatures often wander off in the human realm or being send to one of the six realms: Hungry Ghost Realm, a realm where most of the pretas resides.

In the aftermath to that behavior, the suffering for the preta is strictly dependable for any punishments such as not being able to eat edible food due to their very thin size of their necks; if succeed, the food will ignite their mouths, getting attacked by animals, or shooing off by bigger, more stronger demons such as oni. One of the most notorious punishments for the preta is being forced to eat really revolting inedible things such as human wastes. The presence of preta is invisible to the human eyes as they can't see them. However, in a preta-centric Theravada Buddhist stories, petavatthu, it is seemed that some humans such as the monk can communicate with them to discuss about their predicaments such as murdering off or abusing their loved ones.