Go ask LJ, demon edition

[stillsostrange]

Once again I call upon my beloved scholars and speakers of Greco-Latinate languages. I need at least two separate distinctions of what my characters call demons. One is what happens when spirits (or human ghosts, and I may need a separate word for that too) possess dead bodies, and the other is what happens when the living are possessed.

I'm tossing around the Keres as the root of the corpse-demons, but I may also stick with them being a sub-class of hungry spirits.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

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[criada.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you do want to throw the Etruscans into the mix, they've got some handsome demons. (http://www.mysteriousetruscans.com/tuchulcha.html)