Associations to the word «Dybbuk»

Wiktionary

DYBBUK, noun. A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne