dybbuk
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That’s when she finds out her new girlfriend may be possessed by a dybbuk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2023
“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
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
By the time the newlyweds are dancing in the farmhouse barn, surrounded by raucously celebrating, progressively drunk family and friends, the dybbuk has crashed the party.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2016
Perhaps the lantern light I had glimpsed in these windows the night Raizel and I met to go to the Whitechapel Club hadn’t just been a product of the dybbuk.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
“But dybbukim don’t make girls disappear into thin air,” said Clara.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
“If that banished dybbukim, then this wouldn’t be a problem.”
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
I supposed even dybbukim weren’t spared from remembering.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
“It is believed that dybbukim possess the living so that they may perform tasks they were unable to complete in life. What were those words he had you write, Alter?”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
I grew up on stories of holy men parting the river Bistrița, golems shaped from clay, and, of course, those possessive spirits called dybbukim.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Mr. Kroll and Mr. Mulaney don’t so much portray Gil and George as allow themselves to be taken over by them, as if by dybbuks.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2015
This is the thing with dybbuks, they know how to get under your skin.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2013
The images he conjured with the insect-like scratchings of his inked nib possessed him as dybbuks their host.
From Time Magazine Archive
Critics sometimes complain about how many of Singer's characters behave irrationally and about how many of his plots hinge on the machinations of dybbuks or the fist of fate.
From Time Magazine Archive
The attributions are graceful but hardly necessary, for Poe and Melville rattle around in this book like a couple of dybbuks.
From Time Magazine Archive
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