Fae-o-matic. You find the folklore, I make the beasty!

[Croverus]

So this is a creature from the Hebrew mythology. It's blurred on whether it's a fae-like being or a demon. If you've seen the movie The Unborn then you've got a good idea on this creature.

It's called a Dybbuk.

There are two very different stories about them. The first is a creature that lives in an attic, often knocking things over at night to wake the children and tempt them up into the attack, where it would then kill them and force their way into their body, wearing the child's skin. It'd pretend to be the child then, witha ccess to the child's memories. It'd slowly act more violently, whicht he parents would assume were just tantrums and such. After a few days bad luck seems to surrund them. Playmates would have accidents and get injured, even killed. The Dybbuk would give other family members bad dreams and cause them to argue and fight eachother. If there are other siblings, older siblings would be affected liek teh aprents, with accidents and in fighting. But younger siblings would be untouched by this. Instead, they can tell something is wrong about their brother or sister, who acts meaner than before and who's eyes look wrong. The parents and older siblings will ignore the words of the youngest siblings, telling them their imagining things.

This spirals downwards for a few weeks, and after a month the household is filled with hate and sorrow. The Dybbuk feeds off all this and one night simply slaughters the family, leaving only one of the siblings alive. The Dybbuk then vanishes, leaving the only survivor scarred for life. Dybbuk's have a habit of targetting families with at least 3 or more children, especially when two or more children are still 10 or younger. They are vicious, and see the pain they inflict as a game. Killign the body the Dybbuk possesses gets rid of it, though the body is that of the child and so would seem as child murder to anyone not aware of what was happening. Their reflections are sometimes off, usually their eyes the wrong size or their noses just a bit crooked when they're viewed ina mirror, but most adult minds seem to ignore this. Dibik's hate holy symbols which can repel them, and gold seems to burn their skin. Often times a Dybbuk cna be tricked into trying to take over the body of a doll representing one of the children, leaving them trapped untilt he doll is destroyed. On very rare occassions a Dybbuk can possess the body of a stillborn child and will take that child's place.


... So yeah, that's the old folklore version. The movie version involves a creature possessing a dead twin to try and come back into the world. Powers have included dream haunting, creating waking nightmares, possession, altering film and audio recordings, and poltergiest-like abilities, including throwing people. Hebrew prayer and powerful objects holy to the Jewish people seem to weaken and possibly defeat it.