what does the やつ mean here?


悪魔には死んだ人の体を乗っ取れる **やつ** もいるらしい

My problem is the やつ. it feels useless, because there is 悪魔

"Demon can turn into bodies of dead people" but again there is やつ which feels
like nonsense to me




やつ is actually a key word in the core part of the sentence.

  1. Let's start by identifying that core.

> やつもいる: _Beings also exist._

  2. What kind of beings? Here's where we add a subordinate clause.

> 死んだ人の体を乗っ取れる: _That take over the bodies of people_

  3. So what do we have so far?

> 死んだ人の体を乗っ取れるやつもいる: _Beings also exist that take over the bodies of people._

  4. We can leave things like this, or we could decide to be more specific about the types of beings we are talking about.

> 悪魔には: _Amongst demons_

  5. So now we get...

> 悪魔には死んだ人の体を乗っ取れる **やつ** もいる: _Amongst demons, beings also exist that take
> over the bodies of people._ i.e. _Amongst demons, there are **those** that
> take over the bodies of people._

**Removing やつ would be like removing the word "those."**

  6. However, perhaps we are not completely sure about that fact.

> らしい: _It seems that..._

  7. So in the end we get...

> 悪魔には死んだ人の体を乗っ取れるやつもいるらしい: _It seems that amongst demons, there are those
> that take over the bodies of people._ i.e. _Apparently, some demons can take
> over the bodies of dead people._




やつ is actually a key word in the core part of the sentence.

  1. Let's start by identifying that core.

> やつもいる: _Beings also exist._

  2. What kind of beings? Here's where we add a subordinate clause.

> 死んだ人の体を乗っ取れる: _That take over the bodies of people_

  3. So what do we have so far?

> 死んだ人の体を乗っ取れるやつもいる: _Beings also exist that take over the bodies of people._

  4. We can leave things like this, or we could decide to be more specific about the types of beings we are talking about.

> 悪魔には: _Amongst demons_

  5. So now we get...

> 悪魔には死んだ人の体を乗っ取れる **やつ** もいる: _Amongst demons, beings also exist that take
> over the bodies of people._ i.e. _Amongst demons, there are **those** that
> take over the bodies of people._

**Removing やつ would be like removing the word "those."**

  6. However, perhaps we are not completely sure about that fact.

> らしい: _It seems that..._

  7. So in the end we get...

> 悪魔には死んだ人の体を乗っ取れるやつもいるらしい: _It seems that amongst demons, there are those
> that take over the bodies of people._ i.e. _Apparently, some demons can take
> over the bodies of dead people._

