μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 17references

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.

  • DanishKristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 241ff., (1928) 154ff.
  • Finnish-SwedishWessman 88 Nos. 748–770
  • DutchSinninghe FFC CXXXII 63 No. 171
  • FinnishAarne FFC XXXIII 44 No. 60
  • EstonianAarne FFC XXV 127 No. 60
  • JewishNeuman
  • HinduPenzer III 131 n. 3.
  • general **E. Jones Der Alptraum (Leipzig-Wien, 1912)
  • general *Tegethoff Amor und Psyche 87ff.
  • general Hdwb. d. Abergl. 1 282 s. v. "Alp"
  • general Laistner Rätsel I 41ff., II 1ff.
  • general Wehrhan 62
  • general Hdwb. d. March. s. v. "Alp"
  • general *Meyer Germanen 129ff.
  • general Jellinek Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 322
  • general *Fb "mare" II 551f.
  • general *Kittredge Witchcraft 218, 525f. nn. 54–62. – Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 288ff., De la Saussaye 293f., *Boberg
Within the index

Filed under Dream demons.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Actions of nightmares (alps)Protection against the nightmare (alp)Unbaptized children as nightmares. When caught, they beg baptism. Usually they are murdered illegitimatesGhost of hunter as nightmarePersons 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
Filed beside it
Incubus. A male demon who comes in sleep and has sexual intercourse with a woman

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