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In Jewish mythology, a dybbuk (/ ˈ d ɪ b ə k /; Yiddish: דיבוק, from the Hebrew verb דָּבַק dāḇaq meaning 'adhere' or 'cling') is a malicious possessing spirit believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. [1] It supposedly leaves the host body once it has accomplished its goal, sometimes after being exorcised. [2 ...
The Legend of Churel supposedly originated from Persia where they were described as being the spirits of women who died with "grossly unsatisfied desires". [4]In South-East Asia, the Churel is the ghost of a woman who either died during childbirth, while she was pregnant, or during the prescribed "period of impurity".
The rakshasas are demonic beings from Hindu faith. Rakshasas are also called maneaters (Nri-chakshas, Kravyads). A female rakshasa is known as a Rakshasi. Brahmarakshasa are fierce demon spirits in Hindu faith. Krodhavasas are a race of rakshasas in the Mahabharata. The following are notable rakshasas: Akshayakumara was the youngest son of Ravana.
Many demonic or demon-like entities are not purely spiritual, but physical in nature and related to animals. Julius Wellhausen states, that Islamic demonology is always zoology as well. [38] One prominent classification is given by al-Jahiz, [39] who classifies jinn as: [40] Amir, jinn who live among humans. Angels, benevolent and good jinn.
A red demon enslaved in the garden, presumably Asmodeus, is forced to work. In Islamic culture, Asmodeus is known as a demon (Arabic: شَيطان, romanized: šayṭān Persian: دیو, romanized: dīv) called Sakhr (rock), probably a reference to his fate being imprisoned inside a box of rock, chained with iron and thrown into the sea.
In Middle Persian he is called Dahāg (Persian: دهاگ) or Bēvar Asp (Persian: بیور اسپ) the latter meaning "he who has 10,000 horses". [4] [5] In Zoroastrianism, Zahhak (going under the name Aži Dahāka) is considered the son of Ahriman, the foe of Ahura Mazda. [6] In the Shāhnāmeh of Ferdowsi, Zahhāk is the son of a ruler named ...
Shani is the root for name for the day Saturday in many other Indian languages. In modern Hindi, Odia, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, Urdu, Kannada and Gujarati, Saturday is called Shanivaar; Tamil: Sani kizhamai; Malayalam: Shaniyazhcha; Thai: Wạn s̄eār̒ (วันเสาร์).
People, especially children and young girls, wear taʿwiz (amulets) (Urdu: تعویز, Hindi: तावीज़) to ward off the evil eye. Spells, incantations and curses could also result in ghouls or churel (Urdu: چڑیل, Hindi: चुड़ैल) haunting a person. [citation needed]