Talk:Shadow Shade/@comment-4873205-20160306170252

Shades, in myth, are considered shadow like beings, similar to ghost. They take on various means in myth. In the Odyssey, when Odysseus travels to the underworld in order to speak to the spirit of a now dead seer, he viewed many shadow like beings, with no apparent form. These are more than likely the spirits of those that did not cross the first river in the underworld and thus drank the water to forget their past lives and end their suffering. In Jewish folk lore, a similar creature is consider something that has lost its identity, thus becoming a formless being, lacking in mass or shape. In some cases, it can be something wicked too. The haunting black shadow? Over all, they are commonly related to ghost