Churail

In the cited tradition the churel is the post-mortem spirit of an "unpurified living thing"—typically a woman who has died under cruel circumstances or without proper purification/ritual disposal. Such deaths or the absence of necessary rites leave the woman unable to pass peacefully, producing a revenant state that may linger and act upon the living.

Sources describe the churel simply as resembling a woman. The excerpt provides no further consistent physical details beyond the general womanlike form and alternative regional names that denote this female ghostly identity.

The churel is represented as a revenant that returns after death, often associated with trees (described in some accounts as a tree-spirit). Legends cited state she returns for revenge after a cruel death, particularly targeting the males of her family. The source frames the churel as a potentially harmful, "demonical revenant" in many renderings.