she-demon

English

Etymology

From she- +‎ demon. Compare she-devil.

Noun

she-demon (plural she-demons)

  1. A female demon.
    • 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 14:
      If some were akin to the Formori of the baleful fogs in Irish mythic history and the Mallt-y-nos, those she-demons of marshy lands immortalised by the Welsh bards, creatures huge and uncouth "with grey and glaring eyes," there were others who exceeded in beauty anything human.
    • 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 33:
      When night had fallen, the she-demon stole forth toward the hall, which she entered unheard and unseen.
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