Actions of nightmares (alps)

Motif

Actions of nightmares (alps).

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Night-spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F471.1.1

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

LithuanianBalys Index No. 3690.

Within the index

Filed under Nightmare (Alp). Presses person in dream.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Alp rides horse sweaty at night Alps dance

Filed beside it

Protection against the nightmare (alp)Unbaptized children as nightmares. When caught, they beg baptism. Usually they are murdered illegitimates Ghost of hunter as nightmare Persons who at night become nightmares. Those who are born on a Thursday and christened on a Sunday must at certain times (on Thursdays) press somebody or something

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