μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Night-spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F471.1.5

Filed across the traditions
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 3687
  • Livonian Loorits FFC LXVI 67 No. 183.
Within the index

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

Filed beside it
Actions of nightmares (alps) Protection against the nightmare (alp) Unbaptized children as nightmares. When caught, they beg baptism. Usually they are murdered illegitimates Ghost of hunter as nightmare

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