Fertility Spirits

For Love and Children
Most complex animals and plants have a post mortem life stage which in some way helps the fitness of their offspring/genes. The crudest and simplest form of this is to gather genetic material from offspring post mortem as a ‘apparition’ that gathers it from the offspring and then goes and either finds partners to inseminate (if the offspring being ‘benefited’ is male) or surrogates to act as hosts for eggs (if the offspring is female). This cuckolding or reproductive parasitism can be found in a percentage of all sexual species including humans.