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* Ba:
Ancient Egyptian concept of a person's essence, believed to be be immortal. [Also see "Soul" for more info.]

* Banshee:
A female spirit in Gaelic folklore believed to presage, by wailing, a death in a family.

In Gaelic belief, a female entity who heralds a death by groaning and screaming.

* Bardo:
In Tibetan Buddhism, an intermediate state of existence, usually referring to the state between life and rebirth.

* Being:
To exist in actuality; have life or reality.

The state or quality of having existence, a living entity.

* Bilocation:
Appearing to be in two different places at the same time. [Also see "autoscopy" for more info.]

* Bio-PK:
Psychokinetic effects on biological processes. [Also see "Psychokinesis" for more info.]

* Black Shuck:
A large spectral death omen demon dog in British folklore, especially in Norfolk and other parts of East Anglia. Black Shuck, also called Old Shuck, derives its name from the Anglo-Saxon term scucca or sceocca, old Anglo-Saxon terms for "demon" or "satan." The spectral dog descended from Norse mythology , for he is said to be the black hound of Odin (Woden) brought by early Viking invaders.

Black Shuck is all black and is huge, about the size of a calf. He has large eyes that glow yellow, red, or green as if on fire. Often, he is headless, yet his eyes -where eyes should be- glow in the dark.

The dog is often thought to be an omen of death.

* Brocken Spectre:
The brocken spectre phenomena appears when a low sun is behind a climber who is looking downwards into mist from a peak or mountain ridge.The spectre is nothing more than a shadowy figure of the climber projected forward through the mist.