Re: Hebrew/Latin spirit taxonomies

On 24 Jan, Patrick Dunn wrote:

> I know "shad" from Hebrew, and
> will borrow it in as "malicious autonomous
> non-elemental spirit," but I can't find anything
> else

    Watch out for the vowels in Hebrew, Patrick!
/Sad/ is Hebrew for "breast"!  :-)
    What you're thinking of is /Sed/.
(And of course, thjere's always /Sod/, which
means armed robbery --- /Soded/ is a "pirate"!)

    Other words in Hebrew are /ruax/ meaning
"spirit" (also "wind" ), /tsel/ literally "shadow"
and /ov/ (= aleph-vav-vet) meaning spirit of
the departed: the kind brought back in seances.


Dan Sulani
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A word is an awesome thing.

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