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Church documents and folklore narratives describe the night hag coming in the night, pressing down her prey with an unseen weight and blowing fear into their ear.

People didn’t think, “Oh, maybe this is my nervous system misfiring.” They thought something truly supernatural had entered their bedroom without warning and that it was there to cause them harm. The night hag wasn’t just a metaphor but a real creature in the shared imagination of the time, a being that explained why good, ordinary people could wake up feeling hunted and powerless.

Travel a little farther south and east, and you see similar experiences told in entirely different terms and it wasn’t because the core experience changed, but because the interpretive lens was shaped by different cultural beliefs.