#spirit any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings
supertype: #spiritual_being__spiritualbeing__supernatural_being an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events
subtype: #control.spirit a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance
subtype: #evil_spirit a spirit tending to cause harm
subtype: #bad_fairy__badfairy a fairy that tends to cause harm
subtype: #bogie__bogey__bogy an evil spirit
subtype: #daemon__devil__fiend__demon__daimon one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief
subtype: #incubus a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women
subtype: #succubus__succuba a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men
subtype: #dybbuk__dibbuk (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior
subtype: #cacodemon__cacodaemon (Greek) an evil spirit
subtype: #ghoul an evil spirit or ghost
subtype: #goblin__hob__hobgoblin (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings
subtype: #kelpy__kelpie (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders
subtype: #vampire__lamia (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
instance: #Mephistopheles
subtype: #banshee (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death
subtype: #genie__jinni__jinnee__djinni__djinny a spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals
subtype: #Eblis the principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology
subtype: #familiar_spirit__familiar a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard
subtype: #peri (Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done
subtype: #specter__phantom__spectre a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
instance: #Flying_Dutchman.specter__flyingdutchman
subtype: #presence.spirit an invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby
subtype: #numen a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion)
subtype: #python.spirit a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit
subtype: #sylvan__silvan a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods
subtype: #thunderbird (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird
subtype: #zombi_spirit__zombispirit__zombi__zombie__zombie_spirit (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body
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