evil spirit
Example Sentences
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"The evil spirit of Handel's enchantress Alcina evidently infected one audience member at Tuesday's premiere of this new production," he wrote.
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2022
But she confronts the evil spirit — literally, in her mind — and attempts to defeat it, only to be swallowed whole.
From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2022
This is probably a bad idea in real life, but in The Night House, he’s on to something, because there actually is an evil spirit trying to get him to kill Beth.
From Slate • Aug. 24, 2021
A woman is cursed by a dwarf after she rejects his advances, then has an enormous baby possessed by the evil spirit of the dwarf.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2020
A group of babalawos tried apanaldo, an exorcism, and thought they had trapped an evil spirit in the rooster they buried in a knotted cloth.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
