dybbuk

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In Jewish mythology, a dybbuk is a demonic spirit that inhabits a dead person.

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  1. noun In Jewish folklore, the wandering soul of a dead person that enters the body of a living person and controls his or her behavior.

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  • His eyes rolled in his head, almost he felt faint, imagining how the snake-dybbuk would enter the female. —  The Gravedigger’s Daughter
  • It was on the ocean crossing that the dybbuk-Anna had first emerged. —  The Gravedigger’s Daughter
  • Flash Forward, found a fresh twist for The Unborn dybbuk spirits described in Jewish folklore. —  Wired Top Stories
  • Goyer may have changed the name and spiritual trappings, but the symptoms of dybbuk possession are only as novel as their CGI, here involving crab-walking while one's head twists backward. —  Westword | Complete Issue
  • In the novel, Doriel, a middle-aged man whose parents lived through the war, believes he may be haunted by a dybbuk - in Jewish folklore, the dislocated soul of a dead person.
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  1. Yiddish dibek, from Hebrew dibbūq, probably from dābaq, to cling; see dbq in Semitic roots.
 

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