lemures

I had read of banshees, lemures and leprechauns; they were the ghosts and the fairies of ignorance but they were not like this.

Philosophy, never fit for the people, had entered the best houses, and the image of Epicurus had taken the place of the Lemures.

The ghosts, or specters of the dead that came back to haunt and terrify the living were called lemures.

Their hypothetical common ancestor, the Archipithecus, may have descended directly or indirectly from a branch of the Lemures.

Lemur, the name given to that low family of monkeys, is from the plural Latin word lemures, meaning ghost or spectre.