dybbuk
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“She is dealing with the death of her father and her mother’s depression — and then there’s a wandering spirit or dybbuk that is ornery and disruptive,” said Higuera.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2022
Parents must work together to save their young daughter from a dybbuk, a malevolent spirit that inhabits and ultimately devours its human host.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2019
Polish director Marcin Wrona, who wrote the movie with Pawel Maslona, has thoroughly reconceptualized the mythology of the dybbuk for 21st-century Eastern Europe.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2016
Instead, he dies, and his spirit enters her body as a dybbuk — the evil soul of a dead person.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2016
“Frankie, in case you’ve forgotten, I have a dybbuk inside me.”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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