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

The citizens, maddened by outrage, became more and more obstinate in their resistance; while the Duke seemed to regard the ruin he had caused with a malignant spirit scarcely human.

From The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham by Kingston, William Henry Giles

She was, besides, a paramour to the Red Rapparee, and he attributed much of her dark and ill-boding prophecy to a hostile and malignant spirit.

From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

Revenge, too, how dost thou, malignant spirit, fall into the trap thou hast thyself laid, as will be soon seen!

From The Seven Champions of Christendom by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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 Douce, Francis