TW: mentions suicide

I feel like enough time has passed to be able to talk about this. There is a dark, evil attachment to my mom's remains. This evil entity cannot be destroyed, only sealed away. Some may already know what I am referring to, for those that do not, the entity was a dybuk. For those unfamiliar with dybuks, they originate from Jewish folklore, it is an entity that was never human, and the longer it is allowed to feed, the stronger it can get, to the point where it can kill.

Some background information. My mom passed away from pancreatic cancer of the liver in early 2018, this was her 5th cancer. Due to where she passed and where we lived it was cheaper to have her cremated. At the time I was in the Army so my sister held on to the remains. After I got out in 2020, I got a place to live. In 2021 my sister and her husband decided to move to Florida to live near his parents, due to how they packed they were unable to take the remains with them and so I had taken for the time being since I just lived down the road. At the time I suspected nothing about the remains.

At this time I had been starting my path as a practicing witch. Strengthening my natural abilities, since I could sense spirits but not see them, slowly with practice I was able see after images of spirits. In early 2022 I met someone online and started to form a relationship with, in April of that year I had taken a trip to see how living with them would be. It's when I got back things went south fast. The night I returned, I was woken up in the middle of the night and above me was this black mass in the shape of a sphere dripping darkness. I was terrified, this thing radiated evil. I felt like it wanted to kill me but it couldn't. The next day I consulted my friend who is an experienced witch and she searched for it, the entity tried to hide from her and when she found it, it attacked her. My friend was able to confirm that it was a dybuk. She found that the dybuk was attached to my mom's ashes and it had been attached to her for a long time.

Looking back it explained so much. And going through my memories, the townhouse that we moved into when we moved to California felt evil. It where my mom got her first cancer and where I first started having suicidal thoughts. I remember seeing this darkness at the top of the stairs by my room and by my mom's room. I believe since my mom had more negativity around her the dybuk attached itself to her, since she was raising two kids, my dad left her for another woman, he also ruined her credit. And ever since that townhouse we had been plagued with misfortune and mishaps, some that nearly killed my mom.

After my friend discovered what it was, she gave me a charm for protection a temporary one until the thing was delt with, as it was trying to attach itself to me. We planned for a day to seal it, I believe it was on a new moon. Due to my friend being a lot more experienced, her and her partner who is also a witch took the reins. I can't go into much detail on what was done but I can say is that my friend lured it out and her partner sealed it away, creating a dybuk box. My friend reassured me that it was sealed and cannot hurt me anymore. The heaviness that was in my apartment was gone. Shortly after the sealing ritual my sister asked for the ashes back. While I wanted to bury the box so my family could finally be rid of the demon, but because the ashes were sealed away in the box I had to send it to her. I did warn my sister not to open the box as the dybuk wants to attached itself to our family. I don't know what she did with the box, if she unsealed it to retrieve the ashes or not she hadn't told me. Since then I also went no contact with my sister due to other past issues. So there really isn't a definitive ending to this encounter.

I do apologize that my story telling isn't the best, I don't have the best memory and of how events played out things went really quickly. Things played out over the course of a month, but most of the time it was waiting for my friend's preparations to be complete. Also there are details I am not allowed to share, like how the dybuk was sealed away.