All Outputs (4)

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.

Pieter Bruegel and Carlo Ginzburg: The Debatable Land of Renaissance Dreams (2013)
Journal Article
Milne, L. S. (2013). Pieter Bruegel and Carlo Ginzburg: The Debatable Land of Renaissance Dreams. Cosmos, 29, 59-126

Pieter Bruegel the Elder's pictures of witches and dreams are discussed in relation to Carlo Ginzburg's studies of the benandanti (do-gooders, good walkers) and the mythology of the witches' Sabbath. The shared context for these is dream-culture as a... Read More about Pieter Bruegel and Carlo Ginzburg: The Debatable Land of Renaissance Dreams.

A Storm in the Head: Animals, Dreams and Desire (2011)
Journal Article
Milne, L. S. (2011). A Storm in the Head: Animals, Dreams and Desire. Cosmos, 27, 61-119

This article analyses the long history of the “storm in the head” as a recognisable image-constellation in art, mythology, dreams, and folk-culture. Some very old components – hybrid animal imagery, a set of mediations on the mystic identity between... Read More about A Storm in the Head: Animals, Dreams and Desire.

Spirits and Other Worlds in Nightmare Imagery (2008)
Journal Article
Milne, L. S. (2008). Spirits and Other Worlds in Nightmare Imagery. Cosmos, 24, 177-210