#spirit  any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings
  supertype:  #spiritual_being__spiritualbeing__supernatural_being  an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events
  subtype:  #control.spirit  a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance
  subtype:  #evil_spirit  a spirit tending to cause harm
     subtype:  #bad_fairy__badfairy  a fairy that tends to cause harm
     subtype:  #bogie__bogey__bogy  an evil spirit
     subtype:  #daemon__devil__fiend__demon__daimon  one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief
        subtype:  #incubus  a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women
        subtype:  #succubus__succuba  a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men
        subtype:  #dybbuk__dibbuk  (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior
     subtype:  #cacodemon__cacodaemon  (Greek) an evil spirit
     subtype:  #ghoul  an evil spirit or ghost
     subtype:  #goblin__hob__hobgoblin  (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings
     subtype:  #kelpy__kelpie  (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders
     subtype:  #vampire__lamia  (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
     instance:  #Mephistopheles
  subtype:  #banshee  (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death
  subtype:  #genie__jinni__jinnee__djinni__djinny  a spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals
     subtype:  #Eblis  the principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology
  subtype:  #familiar_spirit__familiar  a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard
  subtype:  #peri  (Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done
  subtype:  #specter__phantom__spectre  a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
     instance:  #Flying_Dutchman.specter__flyingdutchman
  subtype:  #presence.spirit  an invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby
  subtype:  #numen  a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion)
  subtype:  #python.spirit  a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit
  subtype:  #sylvan__silvan  a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods
  subtype:  #thunderbird  (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird
  subtype:  #zombi_spirit__zombispirit__zombi__zombie__zombie_spirit  (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body

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