familiar spirit

noun

Definition of FAMILIAR SPIRIT

: a spirit or demon that serves or prompts an individual

: the spirit of a dead person invoked by a medium to advise or prophesy

1565

Synonyms: apparition, bogey (also bogie or bogy), ghost, hant [dialect], haunt [chiefly dialect], materialization, phantasm (also fantasm), phantom, poltergeist, shade, shadow, specter (or spectre), spirit, spook, sprite, vision, visitant, wraith

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