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The Nightmare is a 1781 oil painting by the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli. It shows a woman with her arms thrown below her, in deep sleep as she undergoes a nightmare as an almost hidden horse (the " night-mare ") looks on as a demonic and ape-like incubus crouches on her chest. [ 1 ]
An incubus (English plural: incubuses, Latin plural: incubi) is a male demon in human form in folklore that seeks to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women; the corresponding spirit in female form is called a succubus. Parallels exist in many cultures.
Incubus was released on DVD in 2002 by Elite Entertainment. [20] It was subsequently released on DVD by Scorpion Releasing under their Katarina's Nightmare Theater label in 2013. [21] On October 30, 2018, Vinegar Syndrome released a region-free special edition Blu-ray of the film. [22]
The Nightmare, by Henry Fuseli, 1781. A mare (Old English: mære, Old Dutch: mare; Old Norse, Old High German and Swedish: mara; Proto-Slavic *mara) is a malicious entity in Germanic and Slavic folklore that walks on people's chests while they sleep, bringing on nightmares. [1]
Ephialtes is an anxiety disorder identified as such by John Bond in 1753, along with other authors of those times, in his treatise "An Essay on the Incubus, or Nightmare [1]". The famous Greek physician Galen in the 2nd century AD had already named nightmares "Ephialtes". [2]
As the apparent convergence with dwarves suggests, the word alp declined in use in German after the medieval period, though it still occurs in some fossilised uses, most prominently the word for "nightmare", Alptraum ("elf-dream"). [18] Variations of the German elf in later folklore include the moss people [19] and the Weiße Frauen ("White ...
Incubus (Esperanto: Inkubo) is a 1966 American horror film directed by Leslie Stevens. It was filmed entirely in the constructed language Esperanto , [ 2 ] shortly before its star, William Shatner , began his work on Star Trek .
John Hough / h ɔː f / [1] (born 21 November 1941) [2] is a British film and television director. He is primarily known for his suspense films of the 1970s and 1980s, [3] including Twins of Evil (1971), The Legend of Hell House (1973), The Incubus (1982) and American Gothic (1988), as well as the 1974 action thriller Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.