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• Ashkenazi legends are a fantastic repository of monsters - not only golems, but dybbuks and demons too.
• Just as the dybbuk is a confrontation between two identities within the same person, the dybbuk's outburst reflects a confrontation between the center and the periphery and a confrontation between cultures, East and West," she explains. San Francisco Sentinel
• Not only his dybbuks and demons but the people themselves belonged not simply to another continent but to another cosmos, a distant century.
• Why else does the film begin with a hilarious but troubling parable about an ancient rabbi (Fyvush Finkel) who may or may not be inhabited by a wandering lost soul known as a dybbuk? Boston.com Most Popular
• The Jewish dybbuk is the malevolent spirit of a dead person which enters a living one and controls it.
• The surname, Dibbuk, refers to the Yiddish word dybbuk that the Encyclopedia Britannica defines as "a disembodied human spirit that, because of former sins, wanders restlessly until it finds a haven in the body of a living person. Walter Mosley
• Pedaya adds that in kabbala, the dybbuk phenomenon is seen as one in which a person's body becomes a channel for another soul - in other words, a transpersonal phenomenon. San Francisco Sentinel
• Oh, and I sold (or maybe "resold," depends on whether or not the editor decides that the New Wyrd chapbook counts) my short story "Jawbone of an Ass" to "SHE NAILED THE STAKE THROUGH HIS HEAD: TALES OF BIBLICAL HORROR," which is being published by Dybbuk Press (editor Tim Lieder.) Day in the Life of an Idiot
• A dybbuk is the spirit of a dead man that enters the body of another living being and possesses it. The Killing Kind
• Naomi sends questioning looks, keen for an update on the dybbuk saga.