malignant spirit

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Alongside his wife, Lorraine, he works as a paranormal investigator, and this is hardly his first tête-à-tête with a malignant spirit.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2021

But, after all, it was only a dream; the whispering of a malignant spirit in your ear.

From True Riches Or, Wealth Without Wings by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

She was, besides, a paramour to the Red Rapparee, and he attributed much of her dark and ill-boding prophecy to a hostile and malignant spirit.

From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

However bad, however depraved the human mind, it still leans to mercy: the power to dispose of another man's life is generally sufficient for the most malignant spirit in its thirst for vengeance.

From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James

This thing is not of your own imagining: some malignant spirit has spread his baleful wing above our house.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton