English > evil spirit: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A spirit tending to cause harm. |
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| Instances | Mephistopheles | evil spirit to whom Faust sold his soul |
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| Narrower | bad fairy | A fairy that tends to cause harm |
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| bogey, bogy, bogie | An evil spirit |
| cacodemon, cacodaemon | An evil spirit |
| devil, fiend, demon, daemon, daimon | An evil supernatural being |
| ghoul | An evil spirit or ghost |
| goblin, hob, hobgoblin | (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings |
| kelpy, kelpie | (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders |
| vampire, lamia | (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living |
| Broader | spirit, disembodied spirit | Any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings |
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| Spanish | espíritu diabólico |
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| Catalan | esperit diabòlic |
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