Protection against the nightmare (alp)

Motif

Protection against the nightmare (alp).

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

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.

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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