tulpa

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tulpa (plural tulpas)

A magical creature that attains corporeal reality, having been originally merely imaginary.
- 1966, Nikos Kazantzakis, England: A Travel Journal, page 110
  
  When the year was up, the tulpa began growing. It lost its fear of its master and began taking on new forms of its own. It ceased to run errands ....