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

"And they believe," says he, "that these were sports of sorcerers, or of the malignant spirit."

From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry

You will be certain to see the article, and I am sure both you and Mr. Brontë will feel acutely the misrepresentations and the malignant spirit which characterises it. 

From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Shorter, Clement King

A change came over the face of Haines—one that transformed his rather handsome features into those of a malignant spirit.

From Raiding with Morgan by Dunn, Byron A. (Byron Archibald)

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