Demons

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In East European Jewish culture, the demon—variously referred to as ruaḥ (spirit), mazik (evildoer), ḥitson (the external one), and shed (demonic spirit)—embodied forces of evil. Jews imagined demons as various sorts of evil forces seeking to intrude into the Jewish realm to destroy the well-being of individuals. The early eighteenth-century medical doctor Tobias Cohen reported a widespread belief in demons among East European Jews, which he found unparalleled elsewhere.

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has abstract: In East European Jewish culture, the demon—variously referred to as ruaḥ (spirit), mazik (evildoer), ḥitson (the external one), and shed (demonic spirit)—embodied forces of evil. Jews imagined demons as various sorts of evil forces seeking to intrude into the Jewish realm to destroy the well-being of individuals. The early eighteenth-century medical doctor Tobias Cohen reported a widespread belief in demons among East European Jews, which he found unparalleled elsewhere. @en
title: Demons
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alternative label: demons
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has related: Amulets and Talismans
has related: Ba‘ale Shem
has related: Circumcision
has related: Heller, Yom Tov Lipmann
has related: Horowitz Family
has related: Magic
has related: Mosheh Ḥayim Efrayim of Sudilkov
has related: Shimshon ben Pesaḥ of Ostropolye

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