The Terror That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault TraditionsDavid Hufford's work exploring the experiential basis for belief in the supernatural, focusing here on the so-called Old Hag experience, a psychologically disturbing event in which a victim claims to have encountered some form of malign entity while dreaming (or awake). Sufferers report feeling suffocated, held down by some "force," paralyzed, and extremely afraid. |
Contents
The Old Hag in Newfoundland | 1 |
The Phenomenology of the Old Hag | 47 |
The Psychological DisInterpretation | 115 |
The Old Hag and Culture | 171 |
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The Terror That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Study of ... David J. Hufford Limited preview - 2015 |
The Terror That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Study of ... David Hufford No preview available - 1982 |