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  2. Malevolence - Wikipedia

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    Malevolence or Malevolent may refer to: Concepts. Evil; Hostility; Malice (law) Sadistic personality disorder, the experience of feeling pleasure from the pain of others;

  3. Evil - Wikipedia

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    Evil, by one definition, is being bad and acting out morally incorrect behavior; or it is the condition of causing unnecessary pain and suffering, thus containing a net negative on the world. [ 1 ] Evil is commonly seen as the opposite, or sometimes absence , of good .

  4. Demon - Wikipedia

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    Bronze statue of the Assyro-Babylonian demon king Pazuzu, c. 800–700 BCE, Louvre. A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity. [1] Historically, belief in demons, or stories about demons, occurs in folklore, mythology, religion, and literature; these beliefs are reflected in media including comics, fiction, film, television, and video games.

  5. Malignant narcissism - Wikipedia

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    In the term "malignant narcissism", the word "malignant" is used in the sense described by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as "passionately and relentlessly malevolent, aggressively malicious". [16] In malignant narcissism, NPD is accompanied by additional symptoms of antisocial, paranoid and sadistic personality disorders. While a person with ...

  6. Dystheism - Wikipedia

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    Dystheism as a concept, although often not labeled as such, has been referred to in many aspects of popular culture.As stated before, related ideas date back many decades, with the Victorian era figure Algernon Charles Swinburne writing in his work Anactoria about the ancient Greek poet Sappho and her lover Anactoria in explicitly dystheistic imagery that includes cannibalism and sadomasochism.

  7. Shedim - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] Although the word is traditionally derived from the root ŠWD (Hebrew: שוד shuḏ) that conveys the meaning of "acting with violence" or "laying waste," [9] it was possibly a loanword from Akkadian, in which the word shedu referred to a spirit that could be either protective or malevolent.

  8. Rakshasa - Wikipedia

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    They were shown as being mean, growling beasts, and as insatiable man-eaters that could smell the scent of human flesh. Some of the more ferocious ones were shown with flaming red eyes and hair, drinking blood with their cupped hands or from human skulls (similar to representations of vampires in later Western mythology).

  9. Glossary of Shinto - Wikipedia

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    ' malevolent demons ') – A demon or devil of perversity, a hindrance to the practice of purity in Shinto and the practice of enlightenment in Buddhism. Jichinsai ( 地鎮祭 , lit. ' ground-pacifying ceremony ' ) – A ceremony held by a Shinto priest on a site before the start of construction on the behalf of owners and workers to pacify and ...