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dybbuk

[dee-book, dib-uhk] / diˈbuk, ˈdɪb ək /


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That’s when she finds out her new girlfriend may be possessed by a dybbuk.

From Los Angeles Times

“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

“If this is Yakov’s dybbuk, why do you think he possessed you?”

From Literature

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

He is a dybbuk, who rather than being ashamed, guilty or motivated to help our pockmarked nation evolve, looks at the world without hope or imagination.

From Washington Post