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The family home and the surrounding areas is precisely where most of the apparitions are said to occur. That is particularly the case of the homestead’s rooms, such as the kitchen, granary, bedrooms or the inside staircase.
As Barandiarán noted there are many overlaps between the ghost stories and the accounts of nocturnal visitors to the family home, often harmless imps (''saindi-maindiak'', ''etxajaunak'', etc.), 'who express their disgust if the embers go out in the fire or if the dinner dishes have not been washed up or put away. Many of the rituals of piling up the ashes and embers of the dying fire or of cleaning up the kitchen are topically related to the dead’s return to the household. Furthermore, they usually come into the house down the chimney.
Other important settings are the locations that, along with the house, are considered the resting place of the dead. Both churches and cemeteries are therefore also frequent places of apparitions or supranatural actions.