- paralysis. This
nightmare experience is
described as
being "
hag-
ridden" in the
Gullah lore. The "Old
Hag" was a
nightmare spirit in
British and also Anglophone...
- Newfoundland,
sleep paralysis is
referred to as the Old
Hag, and
victims of a
hagging are said to be
hag-
ridden upon awakening.
Victims report being completely...
-
forgot about her. In revenge, the girl
arranged so that
Vanlandi was
hag ridden to death. He was
succeeded by his son Visbur.
Snorri Sturluson wrote of...
-
Minister a "goat-footed bard, half-human
visitor to our age from the
hag-
ridden magic and
enchanted woods of
Celtic antiquity".
Lloyd George was also...
- do work when we're ruined," said she. — "You used to call home-life a
hag-
ridden dream, And you'd sigh, and you'd sock; but at
present you seem To know...
-
examples such as murder,
burning to death,
drowning in mead and
being "
hag-
ridden" to death,
might be an
attempt by
Sturluson to say that the
kings who...
-
behaviour (goings-on) H
Hag-
ridden A
nightmare attributed to a
supernatural presence of a
witch or
hag, by whom one is
ridden to
sleep Halterpath A path...
- The
contrast between light-loving
Athens and
benighted Minoan Crete,
hag-
ridden with religion,
reflects another authorial preference. (The epigraph, from...
- Anglosphere,
hypnopompic experiences often entail the
sense that an "Old
Hag" or some
similar "nocturnal spirit" is
sitting on the sleeper's chest, inducing...
- to go Lappland, but his
advisors made him stay.
Instead Huld had him
hag ridden to death. When Vanlandi's son Vísburr was king, he
rejected his first...