Crossword clues for dybbuk
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dybbuk \dyb"buk\ (d[i^]b"b[u^]k; Hebrew d[=e]*b[=oo]k"), n.; pl. dybbuks; Hebr. dybbukim (d[=e]`b[=oo]k*[=e]m"). (Jewish folklore) the wandering soul of a dead person, or a demon, that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior. It may be exorcised by religious rites.
Syn: dibbuk.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"malevolent spirit of a dead person possessing the body of a living one," 1903, from Jewish folklore, from Hebrew dibbuk, from dabak "to cling, cleave to."
Wiktionary
alt. A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. n. A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Dybbuk is a ballet made by New York City Ballet ballet master Jerome Robbins to Leonard Bernstein's eponymous music and taking S. Ansky's play The Dybbuk as a source. The premiere took place on 16 May 1974, at New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with scenery by Rouben Ter-Arutunian, costumes by Patricia Zipprodt and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. A revision of the choreography and the score was made later the same year, the ballet was renamed Dybbuk Variations and received its premiere in November.
A Dybbuk is a malicious possessing spirit in Kabbalah and European Jewish folklore.
- The Dybbuk box is a wine cabinet said to contain such a spirit.
Dybbuk may also refer to:
- Dybbuk (Dungeons & Dragons), a role-playing game monster
-
The Dybbuk (play), a 1914 play by S. Ansky
- A Dybbuk, Tony Kushner's 1997 adaptation of this play
- Dybbuk (ballet), a 1974 adaptation of the play
- The Dybbuk (film), a 1937 adaptation of the play
- The Dybbuk (opera), a 1951 adaptation of the play
- Zuby Nehty, an all-female rock group from the Czech Republic, formerly known as "Dybbuk"
- "Dybbuk", a song by Japanese musician and songwriter Gackt Camui
- Dybbuk (comics), a fictional artificial intelligence and member of DC Comics' Israeli superteam Hayoth
Dybbuk is a fictional character from DC Comics. He was created by John Ostrander, Kim Yale and Geof Isherwood, and first appeared in Suicide Squad (vol. 1) #45, in September 1990.
Usage examples of "dybbuk".
One was of a seraphic disposition, although embedded in the essence of a dybbuk, which made him very unhappy, whereas the other was of the darkest diabolical nature, and enjoyed every evil fantasy inspired in him by the God of the Depths.
The evil dybbuk exclaimed that this was his chance to infiltrate a Messiah at the time of conception, and he gloated over the notion.
A Messiah governed from the core of his soul by a perfectly malevolent dybbuk, that would be a fascinating novelty.
Cases of joint and simultaneous impregnation have never been recorded by science, but that does not necessarily make them impossible, especially when the human process is wilfully monitored by a dybbuk, let alone two.
Wing was writing a letter and Dybbuk was reading what looked like a two-hundred-year-old book as thick as a cinder block and just as dusty.
After nearly twenty years we move as one, but Dybbuk has to do all the navigating.
I jerked back, and some heavy object flattened the suit right between Dybbuk and me.
I assumed that the dog had caught sight of the dybbuk or was interested in Kierkegaard.
Still, interspersed between its superstitions and amulets, demons and dybbuks, Hasidism provided broad cosmic perspectives for the wretched ghetto dweller, and endowed him with a sanctity that reached deeply beyond his ragged parochialism and penetrated his soul.