evil spirit
Noun
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A spirit tending to cause harm (synset 109565030)
is a type of: disembodied spirit, spirit - any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beingssubtypes:
- bad fairy - a fairy that tends to cause harm
- bogey, bogie, bogy - an evil spirit
- daemon, daimon, demon, devil, fiend - an evil supernatural being
- cacodaemon, cacodemon - an evil spirit
- ghoul - an evil spirit or ghost
- goblin, hob, hobgoblin - (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings
- kelpie, kelpy - (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders
- lamia, vampire - (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
specific instances: mephistopheles - evil spirit to whom Faust sold his soul
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