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Don't give a damn about what other people say
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Succubus are real, no kidding please
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That is wrong as germanic people in Germany or Scandinavia believed in the "Nachtmahr/Nachtalb".In Denmark, unlike Egypt, there are no elaborate supernatural beliefs about sleep paralysis, and the experience is often interpreted as an odd physiological event, with overall shorter sleep paralysis episodes and fewer people (17%) fearing that they could die from it.[34]
According to the texts of old Scandinavian literature, these are people who can shift their "hugr" into another shape. “Hugr” is more than the soul in the Christian sense, it is the entire non-corporeal being of the human being, including his thoughts and desires.
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In contrast to witches and other wizards, the Nordic mahr is always associated with “riding” and inflicting damage at dusk or at night. [2] Other spirits never ride. In the old Norwegian Christian rights, riding as a mahr is expressly made a punishable offense. "If it is proven that a woman rides a man or his housemates ..." it says in § 46 of the Christian law of the Eidsivathing. The possibility of changing shape as a Mahr and performing a Mahr ride is presented as a real possibility.
The Eyrbyggja saga from the middle of the 13th century is about the jealousy of the two women Geirrid and Katla. Likewise, in the Ynglinga saga, Vanlandi's death is attributed to a Mahr who was hounded at him by his abandoned wife in Finland, as he was just in Uppsala.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachtalb
So if Danes are less plagued by sleep paralysis than Egyptians it has something to do with a more stressless life / better psychological medicare than with superstition.
Finally Derc and i are not joking about people with sleep paralysis.
Last edited by Morticia Iunia Bruti; January 04, 2021 at 05:02 AM.
Cause tomorrow is a brand-new day
And tomorrow you'll be on your way
Don't give a damn about what other people say
Because tomorrow is a brand-new day
Morticia, that is interesting stuff and I am glad that you shared it, but have you considered that there are quite remarkable cultural upheavals in between the ancient Germanic traditions, sagas and modern Danes? First Christianity, then the age of enlightenment and now the modern, scientifically and technologically developed society? Today most people go to fashion blogs and Instagram to fill their heads with useless cráp instead of listening to stories of demons and ghosts.
In contrast, many communities within the Islamic world harbor a lot of ancient superstitions. That is actually surprising from a European point of view, because Islam is similar to Christianity in many theological respects. In Europe, churches have traditionally worked hard to weed out pagan practices and beliefs entirely instead of allowing them to be incorporated into a wider theological framework.
Those Nachtalb/Nachtmahr belief survived in Christanity even till modern times.
Look at the esoteric movement and all those popular ghost / mystery TV shows, especially the US ones, which are about ghosts, demons and black shadow creatures, which shall choke their victims during sleep (aka what the Nachtmahr does ).
Superstition is still strong in western world despite Enlightment and industrial society.
Connecting a psychological problem to superstition is a easy way to overlook deeper socio-economic and personal problems.
For my taste this study is not convincing.
Last edited by Morticia Iunia Bruti; January 04, 2021 at 12:04 PM.
Cause tomorrow is a brand-new day
And tomorrow you'll be on your way
Don't give a damn about what other people say
Because tomorrow is a brand-new day
It is simply pointed out that depending on the culture in which it occurs, the experience, how you perceive what is happening, is different. It is not a study per se, it is just something obvious in my opinion; if I see a threatening figure at the door, I can think that it is evil personified (true story), a Catholic person will clearly see a horned devil, a Vietnamese person will see the corresponding figure in their culture.
If any of you haven't read A Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan, then you definitely should. He goes into great detail about how a lot of our supernatural superstitions arise from "every day" occurrences like sleep paralysis and what not. Fascinating book.
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That sounds like a interesting reading.
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