A Dybukk is an abominable demonic race from Hebrew mythology, later associated with different legends of vampires and werewolves.
Overview[]
The past of the Dybbuk is not really mythical, that is, it does not belong to a remote past, but rather arises as a symbolic representation incorporated by the Jewish mystics of the 8th century AD.
Let us remember that the practice of mysticism was strictly prohibited by those people, because their argument was the idea that mysticism, in any of its forms, weakened faith.
Now, by the 12th century mysticism was already a widely accepted part of Kabbalah, and by the 16th century, an integral portion of it, as well as some of the strange creatures that inhabit its pages, or scrolls, to be more precise.
The Hebrew word Dybbuk reveals something of its nature. It means something like "adhering", "clinging". In some ways we can imagine him as an energy vampire, sometimes known as a psychic vampire or emotional vampire; that is, a creature generated from someone's mental energy, of course, negative; either through a spell or ritual, or because of someone with a great capacity to hate spontaneously.
Dion Fortune mentions some of this in his work "Psychic Self-Defense", and specifically in his essay "Non-human Contacts on the Astral Plane". Other sources mentioning the Dybbuk can be found in the works of H.P. Blavatski and Annie Besant.
Hebrew tradition holds that the Dybbuk are, in fact, the lost children of Lilith, the mother of vampires; that is, the ancient lilim: wandering and disembodied spirits who have managed to escape the impregnable walls of Gehenna and Sheol.
It was formerly believed that the spirits of suicides used to look for a gateway to return to the world; and for this they made dark pacts with the Dybbuk.
In a way, the Dybbuk is a demon that is not at all satisfied with its situation. His only desire is to return to the world of the living, and to do so he spares no effort of any kind; and even tries to dislodge the soul from the embryos to incarnate in a womb more or less in accordance with its innate malice.
That's why the Dybbuk was particularly feared by pregnant women, a tradition that was captured in the 2009 horror film "The Unborn."
If we go back to the 8th century, the mystics of that time maintained that the Dybbuk can be either a demon or someone who has died but tries to evade or postpone the judgment of his soul, in which case he strays back into the world of forms. : naked, alone and lost, until he finds a way to interact with some unsuspecting person and from there feed on their vital energy until he finally ends up possessing them.
The most terrifying form of demonic possession is exactly what its name suggests. The Dybbuk "attaches" to its prey like a parasite, weakening the will but allowing some autonomy or mask of normality, thus delaying the intervention of an exorcist.
The Dybbuk is always represented more or less in the same way. There is talk of a creature with goat legs, hirsute, fetid, with a certain similarity to human physiognomy. To move in the sensory world, the Dybbuk needs to enter a human body, that is, possess it. Some specialists in Hebrew tradition, for example, Robert Graves and Raphael Patai in their colossal work "The Hebrew Myths", maintain that when someone impure inhales the vapors of incense perhaps he is absorbing the subtle material of the Dybbuk.
However, other legends claim that the Dybbuk gains its entry into the world through cunning and deception; presences that people can take for angelic and paranormal phenomena that, at first glance, pretend to be beneficial, like sweet voices that murmur the future; until he finally manages to wear down his prey's will and penetrate his body.
Once the Dybbuk gains access to the mind, it will begin to manifest itself through violent personality changes, emotional eruptions, erratic, inarticulate behaviors, typical of someone who has lived a long day of deprivation, eating and drinking to the point of satiety.
It is worth clarifying that these excesses are intended to further unbalance the host's energies, making hosting the Dybbuk much easier. Some maintain that even the Dybbuk uses its host to vampirize other people.
Already in the final stage of possession, the Dybbuk will force its prey to devour sugar and sweets of all kinds. His prey often fall into severe depression, which renders them hopeless. These cases - legend has it - usually manifest sputum and vomiting of a noticeably thick and stinking whitish substance. At this point the first symptoms of madness begin to appear.
When the body and mind of its prey have been practically nullified, the Dybbuk's personality manifests itself openly. However, the stay of the Dybbuk; that when it does not have access to the delights of the body it usually lives in abandoned caves and in those small swirls of wind that play with the dry leaves.