Sanatana Dharma - Aka Hinduism (1st Bin)

[Bodhi]

Ashok Ji, As you would be knowing, there is a shrine around kAshI known as pishAcha-mochana (liberator of/from pishAcha-s). Here, a peculiar rite of post-piNDa-dAna is performed. In this rite, the shloka-s invoke all the pitR^i-s from both the paternal and maternal lineages who are lingering in the pishAchayoni, and the shloka-s very specifically invoke all those pishAcha-s who in their human life were related to the performer and died prematuredly like killed by wild-animals, in accident like fire, in madness, or died without progeny, or without repenting for heavy sins like bramha-ghAta etc.

What is the link between a premature death etc with the pishAcha-yoni?

also, after reading what you explained, I recall a tale about sant tulasidas, and if memory serves right a chhanda he wrote about this. He was once traveling and on the way came to spend night at some village. He came to learn that in that village no women would ever venture out alone even during the day. Upon inquiring he was told that there was some pishAcha who lived on an old tree at the gateway of the village, and if any woman passed by, it would do all sorts of dishonourable things to her. So tulasidas visited that tree and with his vision realized that it was an unsatisfied atmA of a poet who died while in middle of completing a chhanda of shR^ingAra nature. And this pishAcha for a long time still looked for completeing that chhanda and to do that found romantic stimulation in teasing those women. So tulasIdas did a piNDa-dAna for him by offering to complete that chhanda and completed it in a way that the meaning became that of devotion rather than romance. By this act the pishAcha got liberated... I am not sure which of that chhanda it is, but I suppose it would be found in kavitAvalI.

so pishAcha is basically a result of a strong unfulfilled attachment ...like you said