Evil ghosts on the other hand, failing to receive veneration from male descendants, become hungry mendicant ghosts in the afterlife. Unable to bear their suffering they steal into the mortal world to search for food and to do harm to man and beast.
惡鬼則因得不到子孫奉祀，在陰間淪為乞食餓鬼，受不住挨餓之苦時，便闖入陽世覓食，為害人畜。