dybbuk

English Thesaurus

1. (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior (noun.person)

hypernym	:	daemon, daimon, demon, devil, fiend,
definition	:	an evil supernatural being (noun.person)

domain category	:	folklore,
definition	:	the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture (noun.cognition)

domain category	:	judaism,
definition	:	the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud (noun.cognition)