Protection against the nightmare (alp) — Mythoi

Motif

Protection against the nightmare (alp).

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Night-spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F471.1.2

Cited in the index

general *Fb "mare" II 551.

Within the index

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

2 finer motifs beneath it

Exorcising the nightmare Destruction of an alp

Filed beside it

Actions of nightmares (alps) 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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