The Terrors of the Night: Charms against the Nightmare and the Mythology of Dreams
(2017)
Journal Article
Milne, L. S. (2017). The Terrors of the Night: Charms against the Nightmare and the Mythology of Dreams. Incantatio : An International Journal on Charms, Charmers and Charming, 6, 78-116. https://doi.org/10.7592/incantatio2017_6_milne
This article takes a semiotic and structuralist approach to understanding the characteristic nightmare package of imagery, or image-constellation, which appears also in charms, curses and lullabies to do with disturbed sleep. Elements of the nightmar... Read More about The Terrors of the Night: Charms against the Nightmare and the Mythology of Dreams.