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Jesus drives out a demon or unclean spirit, from the 15th-century Très Riches Heures. In English translations of the Bible, unclean spirit is a common rendering [1] of Greek pneuma akatharton (πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον; plural pneumata akatharta (πνεύματα ἀκάθαρτα)), which in its single occurrence in the Septuagint translates Hebrew ruaḥ tum'ah (רוּחַ ...
The evil spirits would make the people sacrifice to the demons, but they were not demons themselves. [97] The spirits are stated in Enoch to "corrupt, fall, be excited, and fall upon the earth, and cause sorrow". [98] [99] The Book of Jubilees conveys that sin occurs when Cainan accidentally transcribes astrological knowledge used by the ...
Ifrits are generally bad. Marid: a haughty and powerful Shaitan or very malevolent Ifrit. Bu'bu: a jinn that frightens children. Si'lah: a female demon who seduces men. Amir: spirits dwelling in houses. Ghul: generally evil, lives in the desert. Qarînah: name for a specific demon or doppelgänger, a type of spirit that follows every human.
Spirits are often classified by the worlds they inhabit: underworld, earth, atmospheric, or heaven. [3] They are also classified as good and bad, or as neutral: the word "devil" is pejorative, but the word "demon" changes the value. [clarification needed] [3] In 17th century Europe, spirits included angels, demons, and disembodied souls.
In some regions in Japan, [19] there is an ancient custom of hanging yomogi and iris leaves together outside homes in order to keep evil spirits away. It is said that evil spirits dislike their smell. The juice is said to be effective at stopping bleeding, lowering fevers and purging the stomach of impurities.
The Bhutas, spirits of deified heroes, of fierce and evil beings, of Hindu deities and of animals, etc., are wrongly referred to as "ghosts" or "demons" and, in fact, are protective and benevolent beings. Though it is true that they can cause harm in their violent forms, as they are extremely powerful, they can be pacified through worship or ...
Some Chinese believe that illnesses to man is due to the possession of an evil yin spirit (kuei). These evil spirits become such when the deceased are not worshiped by the family, they have died unexpectedly, or did not follow Confucius's ideals of filial piety and ancestral reverence accordingly. These evil spirits cause unexplainable ...
The dialectologist Elizabeth Wright described the boggart as 'a generic name for an apparition'; [1] folklorist Simon Young defines it as 'any ambivalent or evil solitary supernatural spirit'. [2] Halifax folklorist Kai Roberts states that boggart ‘might have been used to refer to anything from a hilltop hobgoblin to a household faerie, from ...