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

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

As I do not value my malignant spirit at any price, I decline for the present to avail myself of this opportunity to be relieved of it.

From The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba by Goodman, Walter

But, though the natives have never discovered this for themselves, they do not, as in other diseases, attempt to explain yaws as the work of a malignant spirit.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil

He seemed to be a most malignant spirit.

From The Mandarin's Fan by Hume, Fergus