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

This spectre was supposed to be an old man, or malignant spirit, who directed, and ruled over, the mountain torrents. 

From Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales by Owen, Elias

This is enough of the exorcism of that malignant spirit, constitutional compact.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

However bad, however depraved the human mind, it still leans to mercy: the power to dispose of another man's life is generally sufficient for the most malignant spirit in its thirst for vengeance.

From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James

"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 Christmas, Henry