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An alpĬame by, climbed into a boat, untied it from the bank, rowed it with an They were watching their herds not far from a body of water. Once some herdsmen were out in the field in the middle of the They have complained pitifully that they have little children at home whoĪ trud or an alp often travels a great distance to make his nighttime Must make them promise to never disturb the place again. If one gets up quicklyĪnd plugs up the hole, then they must stay in the room and cannot escape,Įven after the doors have been opened. Sound that they make in the wall while getting in. In the still of the night one can hear the Out the alps, they can still get in through the smallest holes, which they (mare-ride) in Danish, mareritt (mara-ride) in Norwegian, mardröm (mare-dream) in Swedish, and Alpdruck (alp-pressure) or Alptraum (alp-dream) inĮven though windows and doors may be tightly closed and locked to keep Martröð (mare-ride) in Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic, mareridt In High German, the demon who causes bad dreams is most often called anĪlp, a word that is etymologically related to elf.Ī mare-induced bad dream is called a nightmare in English, The mare in nightmare is not a female horse, but a mara,Īn Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse term for a demon that sat on sleepers'ĭialect variants, as explained below, include the forms mara, mahr, Ashliman's folktexts, a library of folktales, folklore, The Witch Woman (Iceland, The Ynglinga Saga of Snorri Mara (Shetland Islands, Biot Edmonston and Jessie M. Night-Mare (England, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps). Charm against Night-Mares (Germany, A.The Man Who Married a Mara (Denmark, Evald Tang Kristensen).An Alp Is Captured (Germany, Bernhard Baader).A Mahrt Is Captured (Poland/Germany, A.Beliefs Concerning Alps and Maras (Germany, Karl Bartsch).The Alp (Germany, Johann August Ernst Köhler).The Alp (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm).Night-Mares: Demons that Cause Nightmares
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