Sleep paralysis and folklore
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Sleep paralysis and folklore
Sleep paralysis is a relatively new term to describe what for hundreds of years many believed to be a visitation by a malevolent creature which attacked its victims as they slept. The first clinical description of sleep paralysis was published in 1664 in a Dutch physician's case histories, where it was referred to as, 'Incubus or the Night-Mare [sic]'. In 1977, it was discovered more than 100 p...
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عنوان ژورنال: JRSM Open
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2054-2704,2054-2704
DOI: 10.1177/2054270415598091