disembodied spirit

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disembodied spirit - any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings spirit spiritual being, supernatural being - an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events control - a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance evil spirit - a spirit tending to cause harm banshee, banshie - (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death djinn, djinni, djinny, genie, jinnee, jinni - (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals familiar spirit, familiar - a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard peri - (Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, spectre, specter - a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" presence - an invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby kachina - a deified spirit of the Pueblo people numen - a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion) python - a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit silvan, sylvan - a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods thunderbird - (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird zombi, zombi spirit, zombie spirit, zombie - (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body