Reverse Dictionary: SPIRIT (supernatural)

ADJECTIVES
► CALODEMONIAL pert. to beautiful or good spirits → 1522 obs.
► EERIE apprehensive, frightened, in dread of spirits → 1796 Sc. & Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► BOO-HAG a witch, the dead spirit of a dead person, sometimes supposed to cause nightmares → 1938 Amer. dial.
► DEMONOLATRY the worship, through propitiation, of ghosts, demons, and spirits → 1991 (Bk.)
► DEMONOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of spirits → 1991 (Bk.)
► FETCH a spirit that foretells early death, a ‘token’ → 1930 Amer. dial.
► HAUNT a ghost or spirit → 1869 Amer. dial.
► JUMBIE the ghost or spirit of a dead person, esp. a malevolent one → 1764 chiefly Caribbean usage
► KELPIE ► KELPY the Lowland Scottish name of a fabled water-spirit or demon assuming various shapes, but usually appearing in that of a horse; it is reputed to haunt lakes and rivers, and to take delight in, or even to bring about, the drowning of travellers and others → 1747 Sc.
► MIZZEN a spirit, an imp → 1901 Amer. dial.
► NELLY LONG ARMS a ‘boggart’; a spirit supposed to inhabit wells, and children were told that Nelly Long Arms would pull them in if they went too near → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► OLD DELPH WILL a household spirit, a demon, an apparition → 1824 Eng. dial.
► OLD GOGGIE a household spirit, a demon, an apparition → 1889 Eng. dial.
► OLD HOB a household spirit, a demon, an apparition → 1824 Eng. dial.
► OLD JENNY GREENTEETH a household spirit, a demon, an apparition → 1870 Eng. dial.
► OLD LOB a household spirit, a demon, an apparition → 1870 Eng. dial.
► OLD MOSS a household spirit, a demon, an apparition → 1824 Eng. dial.
► OLD PACK a household spirit, a demon, an apparition → 1824 Eng. dial.
► SKOOKUM a ghost, a demon, a spirit → 1900 Amer. dial.
► TOMMYKNOCKER a ghost or spirit said to live in mines; the noise made by such a spirit → 1910 Amer. dial.
► WALLIMAN a familiar spirit → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► WATER-KELPIE the Lowland Scottish name of a fabled water-spirit or demon assuming various shapes, but usually appearing in that of a horse; it is reputed to haunt lakes and rivers, and to take delight in, or even to bring about, the drowning of travellers and others → 1747 Sc.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BARGHEST one who has the power of perceiving the disembodied spirits of living men → 1865 Eng. dial.

PHRASES
► BOUND AND SOT of the spirit of a dead person: prevented by a spell from wandering away from the burial place → 1889 Amer. dial.