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Episode 146: A Great Weight (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2020-07-06 07:00:02 +0000 UTCHumans have spent thousands of years building systems to keep us as safe as possible. But eventually, each of us will have to stop and rest, letting down our guard and opening ourselves up to perhaps our darkest and oldest of enemies.
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Further Reading
- “Oldest Known Mattress Found; Slept Whole Family,” National Geographic, December 2011, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/12/111208-oldest-mattress-africa-archaeology-science/.
- Stephen Gordon, Supernatural Encounters: Demons and the Restless Dead in Medieval England, c.1050–1450 (London: Routledge 2019).
- William MacLehose, “Fear, Fantasy, and Sleep in Medieval Medicine,” Emotions and Health 1200–1700, edited by Elena Carrera (Leiden: Brill 2013).
- Claire Trenery, Madness, Medicine, and Miracle in Twelfth-Century England (London: Routledge, 2019).
- Edwin A. Abbott, St. Thomas of Canterbury: His Death and Miracles vol. 1 (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1898).
- Jacqueline Pearson, “The Ghost of Colonel Bowen: 1655, 1691, 1941,” Preternature 5.1 (2016), pp. 86–111.
- David J. Hufford, The Terror That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982).
- David J. Hufford, “Sleep Paralysis as Spiritual Experience,” Transcultural Psychiatry 42.1 (1 March 2005), pp. 11–45.
- B. A. Sharpless and Doghramji K, Sleep Paralysis – Historical, Psychological and Medical Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015).
- Owen Davies, “The Nightmare Experience, Sleep Paralysis, and Witchcraft Accusations.” Folklore 114.2 (2003) pp. 181–203.
- EJO Kompanje, “‘The Devil Lay Upon Her and Held Her Down’: Hypnagogic Hallucinations and Sleep Paralysis Described by the Dutch Physician Isbrand van Diemerbroeck (1609–1674) in 1664,” Journal of Sleep Research 17 (2008), pp. 464–467.
- Charles Stewart, “Erotic Dreams and Nightmares from Antiquity to the Present,” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 8.2 (June 2002), pp. 279–309.
- Amanda McKeever, The Ghost in Early Modern Protestant Culture: Shifting Perceptions of the Afterlife, 1450–1700, Dissertation (University of Sussex 2010).
- Ludwig Lavater, Of ghostes and spirites walking by nyght and of strange noyses, crackes, and sundry forewarnynges, whiche commonly happen before the death of menne, great slaughters, [and] alterations of kyngdomes, translated into English by Robert Harrison (London: Henry Benneyman, 1572), https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A05186.0001.001?view=toc.
- “Of Ghosts and Spirits Walking by Night by Ludwig Lavater, 1572,” The British Library, https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/of-ghosts-and-spirits-walking-by-night-by-ludwig-lavater-1572.
- Richard Baxter, Certainty of the World of Spirits and, consequently, of the immortality of souls of the magic end misery of the devils and the damned and of the blessedness of the justified, fully evinced by the unquestionable history of apparitions, operations, witchcrafts, voices etc written as an addition to the many other treatises for the conviction of Sadducee and infidels (London: T. Parkhurst 1691).
- Avery F. Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1997).
- “The Strange World of Felt Presence,” The Guardian, March 2005, https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/05/the-strange-world-of-felt-presences.
- James S. Amelang, “Sleeping with the Enemy: The Devil in Dreams in Early Modern Spain,” American Imago 69.3 (Fall 2012), pp. 319–352.
- José F R de Sá and Sérgio A Mota-Rolim, “Sleep Paralysis in Brazilian Folklore and Other Cultures: A Brief Review,” Frontiers in Psychology 7.1294. (7 Sep 2016), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5013036.
- Bahar Gholipour, “Ever Wake Up and Think You See a Ghost? Here’s What’s Happening,” Live Science, 14 January 2015, https://www.livescience.com/49457-sleep-paralysis-hallucinations.html.
- Sara G. Miller, “The Demon on Your Chest and Other Terrifying Tales of Sleep Paralysis,” Live Science, 10 October 2016, https://www.livescience.com/56422-sleep-paralysis-different-cultures.html.
- Tereza Pultarova, “The Demon Attacks at Night: Explaining the Incubus Phenomenon,” Live Science, 18 December 2017, https://www.livescience.com/61227-incubus-phenomenon.html.
- Nancy Caciola and Moshe Sluhovsky, “Spiritual Physiologies: the Discernment of Spirits in Medieval and Early Modern Europe,” Preternature 1.1 (2012), pp. 1–48, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/preternature.1.1.0001.
- Cynthia Hahn, review of The Medieval Heart by Heather Webb, Church History 81.1 (March 2012), pp. 166–168.
- Katharine Park, “The Criminal and the Saintly Body: Autopsy and Dissection in Renaissance Italy,” Renaissance Quarterly 47.1 (Spring 1994), pp. 1–33.
