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nightmare

2 records across 2 traditions carry this current.

Eastern Europe · 1

LidércNight visitor · HungaryA Hungarian night visitor that may be hatched as a miracle chicken, fly as a fiery light, or press the sleeper as an incubus. Wealth and longing arrive together; the keeper seldom keeps both life and gold.

Europe & the North · 1

AlpNight visitor · Germany · AustriaIn German folklore an alp is a typically male night-presser, kin to the elf, that sits on sleepers and sends Alpdruck. Distinct from the mara, though both explain the same crushed waking.