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/ˈdɪbʊk/ · noun
(mythology, Judaism) A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person..
And who am I? A dybbuk—a demon of all shapes and no shape. My profession is forced entry into the minds of mortals; my speciality is Jews.
The Great Freddie stood up. “I'm glad that our paths crossed again. I want to help you. But I don't want to be possessed by a Jewish dybbuk. When I was growing up, I never saw a Jew. I thought they all wore horns and had tails.” Said the dybbuk, “What do you know? In the shtetl where I grew up, the muddy village, we thought all Christians had tails and horns. And the Nazi soldiers carried pitchforks.”
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Dybbuk means (mythology, Judaism) A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person..
Common synonyms include dibbuk.
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And who am I? A dybbuk—a demon of all shapes and no shape. My profession is forced entry into the minds of mortals; my speciality is Jews.
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