In Perm mythological stories, the words "demon" and "devil" (usually in the plural form) and their suffix-derived variants are traditionally used to designate a sorcerer's helper spirits, which he sends into a person to cause illness or other harmful effects: "There is one sitting inside me already, and not just one either.

I didn't wear a cross back then, so the sorcerers gave me something to drink and bound me. They were envious of our family. And now the demon Egorka lives inside me. He has lived here for thirty years. The sorcerers slipped him to me in some kvass.".

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