dybbuk
/ˈdɪbʊk
/noun (plural dybbuks or dybbukim /ˈdɪbʊkɪm/)
(In Jewish folklore) a malevolent wandering spirit that enters and possesses the body of a living person until exorcised.The Jewish dybbuk is the malevolent spirit of a dead person which enters a living one and controls it....
- Ashkenazi legends are a fantastic repository of monsters - not only golems, but dybbuks and demons too.
- Not only his dybbuks and demons but the people themselves belonged not simply to another continent but to another cosmos, a distant century.
Origin
From Yiddish dibek, from Hebrew dibbūq, from dāḇaq 'cling'.