dybbuk
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“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
Parents must work together to save their young daughter from a dybbuk, a malevolent spirit that inhabits and ultimately devours its human host.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2019
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
More mournful than frightening, the dybbuk may upend the celebrations, but the revelers do far more damage.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2016
“If this is Yakov’s dybbuk, why do you think he possessed you?”
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
She would have made good company of Motke the Meshugener, who had wandered the streets of Piatra Neamț harassing travelers he was convinced were possessed by the dybbukim of his loved ones.
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
“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
“If that banished dybbukim, then this wouldn’t be a problem.”
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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 Nobel laureate chooses 47 tales of demons, dybbuks and exuberantly flawed men and women, set mainly in his native Poland and his adopted Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
The images he conjured with the insect-like scratchings of his inked nib possessed him as dybbuks their host.
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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