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

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

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

But, though the natives have never discovered this for themselves, they do not, as in other diseases, attempt to explain yaws as the work of a malignant spirit.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil