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or afrit
as in imp
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At her very best, Emily behaves like a petulant pre-adolescent spoiled imp.
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The second was more bizarre: that some nasty imp in my psyche might decide that jumping was a good idea.
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There are highs and lows, angels and demons.
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Davion Mitchell is a defensive demon.
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Night of the Living Dead centers all the action at a farmhouse, where seven people attempt to ward off the ghouls — without any prior knowledge of how to do so.
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Jittery housemaid Miss Lamb (Thomasin McKenzie) proves less trouble to manage, as Fred scares the wits out of her with bogus talk of a ghoul wandering the Moors.
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But as the djinn becomes embodied, the delicate balance between the real and the supernatural starts to falter.
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In the centuries-old Cape Town Muslim community of my childhood, none of this was particularly unusual; older people spoke freely about ghosts or jinn, counseling us to take precautions of prayers, salt, incense, to limit our interaction with them.
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The director of the 1996 film was recently asked by The Hollywood Reporter about a joke in the new Scary Movie that references the movie, which starred Shaquille O'Neal as a genie.
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As for the genie’s proclivity for rapping, Glaser remembers that stemming from O’Neal’s own pursuit of a hip-hop career in the 1990s.
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There are legends of ghost sightings and spooky happenings on the dirt road, like the woman who reportedly wanders it in the dark, crying out for her children.
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The ghosts of 1982 Austrian coach Ralf Rangnick was asked multiple times at a news conference Friday outside of Arrowhead Stadium about that shocking game at the 1982 World Cup.
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There’s an undercurrent of anxiety under all of it, outside of the sea hag.
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The island village is beset by sea hags, serial killers, creepy clowns and other evils that interfere with Tom’s dream of turning Widow’s Bay into a Martha’s Vineyard-like tourist destination.
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The Devil’s Museum, a satellite of the main collection, has amassed more than 3,000 depictions of demons, evil spirits and incubus from around the world.
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Your fame sits beside you like an incubus, and people are embarrassed and want to leave the room.
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“Afreet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afreet. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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