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Mr. Kroll and Mr. Mulaney don’t so much portray Gil and George as allow themselves to be taken over by them, as if by dybbuks.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2015

This is the thing with dybbuks, they know how to get under your skin.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2013

Critics sometimes complain about how many of Singer's characters behave irrationally and about how many of his plots hinge on the machinations of dybbuks or the fist of fate.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Nobel laureate chooses 47 tales of demons, dybbuks and exuberantly flawed men and women, set mainly in his native Poland and his adopted Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive

The attributions are graceful but hardly necessary, for Poe and Melville rattle around in this book like a couple of dybbuks.

From Time Magazine Archive