| 单词 | evil spirit |
| 释义 | evil spirit (once / 1357 pages) n WORD FAMILY evil spirit: evil spirits USAGE EXAMPLESGrandpa didn’t like wearing shoes indoors because shoes dragged filth inside and evil spirits could hitchhike on shoes and clothing. The Guardian(Nov 27, 2016) Revelers would dress up in costumes to scare off evil spirits that roamed the land just before winter arrived. Washington Post(Oct 28, 2016) The symbols, which were intended to protect inhabitants and visitors of buildings from witches and evil spirits, took many forms, including patterns and sometimes letters. BBC(Oct 30, 2016) n a spirit tending to cause harm Exp|Hypo|Hyper Mephistopheles evil spirit to whom Faust sold his soul bad fairy a fairy that tends to cause harm bogey, bogie, bogyan evil spirit daemon, daimon, demon, devil, fiendan evil supernatural being cacodaemon, cacodemonan evil spirit ghoulan 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 incubusa male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women succuba, succubusa female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men dibbuk, dybbuk(Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior disembodied spirit, spirit any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings |
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