lemures

noun

1. (Roman, plural, plural-only)The spirits or ghosts of the dead, considered as malignant.

   “The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint.”

   “So still lay the figure, and so dim was its outline, that any other than Arbaces might have felt a superstitious fear, lest he beheld one of those grim lemures, who, above all other spots, haunted the threshold of the homes they formerly possessed.”