Demons, by contrast, were almost always malevolent tricksters who served the Devil. Demons lacked knowledge of what it meant ...

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There is, however, quite a gory distinction. Per Merriam-Webster, a ghost is “the soul of a dead person believed to be an inhabitant of the unseen world or to appear to the living in bodily likeness”.

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