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Legends abot dream monsters2/1/2024 ![]() People believed the dragonfly might sew together your fingers or toes.Įven sleeping in a bed poses its own problems. It wasn’t advisable to fall asleep outside in Iowa. Hawthorn trees are widely held to be fairy trees, so they become a liminal space between the world. ![]() Thomas the Rhymer did so and ended up working for the Queen of Faerie for seven years as a result. Try to avoid falling asleep under a hawthorn tree. This stops your soul being trapped in them while you sleep. You should also cover any mirrors in your bedroom before bed. So perhaps the cat chose to steal the soul while the body slept. There was a belief during the Renaissance belief that the soul attached to the body at the lips. Others believed cats stole souls for the Devil. A jury in Plymouth even found a cat guilty of infanticide in 1791. Many believed cats would steal a baby’s breath while it slept. It wasn’t just your physical body that you had to worry about while sleeping. The latter two were believed to deter witches, so it appears people thought they would deter an incubus too (Edwards 2013). Girls who didn’t want to lose their virtue to an incubus were directed to use herbal concoctions including St John’s Wort, vervain, and dill (2013). ![]() Edwards relates a remedy recommended to deter demons. It also explains why parents hung iron implements above their child’s cradle to deter fairies from stealing them. This reflects the wider belief that iron warded off evil. There was a belief that iron bracelets could protect you from demons in your sleep (McKendry 2016). So if you ignore the medical opinion that they’re not real, how do you guard against these creatures? What does sleep folklore tell us? Though Geoffrey of Monmouth claimed a lot of things that weren’t exactly true. ![]() A 13th-century manuscript illumination, the earliest known depiction of Thomas Becket’s assassination in Canterbury Cathedral c1200 Īccording to Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of England, even Merlin was the result of an incubus visit to his mother. ![]()
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