Most of the nuns were very much frightened when they saw that figure walk up to the bedside, taking good care, however, to avoid the priest, he being so very holy it was impossible for an evil spirit to go near or even look at him.
In fact, until I was fifteen years old, I really believed that the image I then saw was an evil spirit.
Thanks be to Allah ye be all sound and sane, yet actions such as these befit none but mad men or those possessed of an evil spirit.
FN#57] A she-Ifrit, not necessarily an evil spirit.
Only the magician's evil spirit, or his familiar, as he calls it.
If ye have come to scoff again, begone ere I summon an evil spirit to blight ye.
The Pottawatomies believed in two Great Spirits, Kitchenonedo, Good Spirit, and Matchemondo, Evil Spirit.
Men and animals were created, and lived peaceably until the coming of an evil spirit, in the form of a serpent, which introduced war, sickness and premature death.
A benighted hunter, passing that way, told of a wondrous light, sparkling like the glow of a thousand fireflies; and of a rumbling sound that shook the earth, announcing that an evil spirit was at work.
The Mahadeo Kolis of Ahmadnagar believe that every malady or disease that seizes man, woman, child, or cattle is caused either by an evil spirit or by an angry god.
One way is that practised by the Majhwars of Mirzapur, which resembles that for laying the evil spirit of a sweeper, to which reference has been made already.
But more properly speaking it is an evil spirit produced by a man's vices, the ghost of a liar, adulterer, or criminal of any kind, or of one who has died insane.
It is the same with an evil spirit, with the difference that from the evil truths are taken away, and from the good falsities are taken away, and this goes on until each becomes his own love.
Besides, did you ever hear of anevil spirit having a child?
My confessors informed me that I was beset by an evil spirit, and urged me to pray against it.
I have heard persons declare, that it would be no harm to kill me, as I had an evil spirit.
Disgusted with this failure, the Good Spirit strenuously opposes the Evil Spirit in his resolve to secure Dinham's soul: BAD.
I was actually tempted by an evil spirit; and when they asked me to take my place at the table I could not refuse.
And such a man is compared to an animal, to an evil spirit that it is a righteous act to get rid of.
Even a spider, that is an evil spirit, must not be killed either, he tells us emphatically.
When he saw me swinging my sword about me on all sides, he ought to have realized I was a terrible being, an evil spirit, a demon, and crossed himself several times.
The steadfast earth gaped to devour the apostate sons of Israel, but the termination of this wretched man's existence has been, as far as can now be known, by the direct means of an evil spirit, whom his own arts had evoked into the upper air.
You shall judge yourself whether it was likely to be suggested by a good or an evil spirit.
No one could discover the secret, and many people thought that the prince had been carried away by an evil spirit or by witchcraft.
It is supposed that this cat was the Evil Spirit[61] himself, who had strangled the squire in his bed in this form, and had then carried him off to Põrgu to expiate his crimes.
He related the wonderful story to his children before his death, and as the money had brought him happiness and prosperity, he could not suppose that it had been the gift of an evil spirit.
And do these Creatures, capable of this Attainment, by giving way to an evil Spirit, employ their Wit and Strength to afflict and destroy one another?
He still loved Matilda, but if she had done such a wicked thing as to give her children to an evil spirit, she must suffer for it.
She has sacrificed her children to an evil spirit, and it is only right that she should be punished for her wickedness.
There she had seen Matilda talking with a being that from its looks could be nothing but an evil spirit.
It has also been remarked that in the course of time the word came to signify both the good and the evil spirit.
Come on,' said Mulney hurriedly to Abdul, 'or the old fool will make me out an evil spirit.
Our familiar word bogey, a sort of nickname for an evil spirit, comes from the Slavonic word for God--bog.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evil spirit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
