Assertion: sleep paralysis | /r/HasProperty | old hag
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text: Sleep paralysis and associated hallucinatory experiences are supposed to be the basis of worldwide cultural accounts of nocturnal assaults by evil beings which sit on the helpless sleepers’ chest and suffocate them (ref. 1): incubus (Middle Ages in Europe); old hag (Newfoundland); kanashibari (Japan); ghost oppression (Hong Kong Chinese); etc.
text: For example, in Newfoundland sleep paralysis is called the ‘Old Hag’.