malignant spirit
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Alongside his wife, Lorraine, he works as a paranormal investigator, and this is hardly his first tête-à-tête with a malignant spirit.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2021
As the multitude surged onward toward the Jaffa gate, a cobbler named Ahasuerus, as if moved by a malignant spirit, thrust his foot before the prisoner, who stumbled thereat and fell.
From The Centurion's Story by David James Burrell
"And they believe," says he, "that these were sports of sorcerers, or of the malignant spirit."
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Henry Christmas
The author tells him that he seems rather to be a malignant spirit, and presses for some further information.
From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce
Ignorant of the nature, or even of the existence, of a nervous system, primitive man explains abnormal mental states as due to a malignant spirit.
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen
