Noun
Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters.
Source: Webster's dictionaryFor if they were spirites that haunted some houses, by appearing in diuers and horrible formes, and making greate dinne: they were called Lemures or Spectra. Source: Internet
St. Augustine, The City of God, 11. Lemures were formless and liminal, associated with darkness and its dread. Source: Internet
The head of household ( paterfamilias ) would rise at midnight and cast black beans behind him with averted gaze; the Lemures were presumed to feast on them. Source: Internet