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In many cases the demon can be the spirit of a recently dead relative who has come back for some unfinished business, or has come to communicate some important news to the living. Often persons sleeping near the afflicted person say kania, kania, "eat! eat!" in an attempt to prolong the possession for a chance to converse with the dead relative ...
A female spirit known as the Silkie or Selkie, who received her name from the fact that she was always dressed in grey silk, appears in English and Scottish folklore. [16] [49] Like a ghost, the Silkie is associated with the house rather than the family who lives there, [16] but, like a brownie, she is said to perform chores for the family.
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Chaste women place their beds upon bricks to deter the rather short fellows from attaining their sleeping forms. They also share the hole in the head detail and water-dwelling habits of the boto. In Swedish folklore, the mara or mare is a spirit or goblin that rides on the chests of humans while they sleep, giving them bad dreams (or ...
drinking coffee before sleeping, taking the mare's hat, throwing a piece of a noose at the demon, sleeping with a leather, wedding belt or a scythe, changing one's sleeping position, smearing feces on the front door, leaving a bundle of hay in one's bed and going to sleep in another room.
After unlocking the secrets of DNA, the Nobel prize-winning biochemist traded in his centrifuge for a life of wine, women, and surf. [From Esquire, 1994.]
(Kikimora as house-spirit and guardian of chickens - hence her depiction in chicken-like form). Kikimora (Ukrainian and Russian: кикимора, IPA: [kʲɪˈkʲimərə]) is a legendary creature, a female house spirit in Slavic mythology. Her role in the house is usually juxtaposed with that of the domovoy.
The third-quarter pass secured the first Titans touchdown of the day. The Vikings blitzed five pass rushers on third-and-10. But Tennessee's offensive line stood its ground to buy Levis time as he ...