μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Nightmare (Alp). Presses person in dream.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Night-spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F471.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Danish Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 241ff., (1928) 154ff.
  • Finnish-Swedish Wessman 88 Nos. 748–770
  • Dutch Sinninghe FFC CXXXII 63 No. 171
  • Finnish Aarne FFC XXXIII 44 No. 60
  • Estonian Aarne FFC XXV 127 No. 60
  • Jewish Neuman
  • Hindu Penzer 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 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
Filed beside it
Incubus. A male demon who comes in sleep and has sexual intercourse with a woman

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