dybbuk

Example Sentences

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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

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

Now that I recognized Yakov’s dybbuk for what it was, I could feel him stirring inside of me like a phantom limb.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros