This article takes a semiotic and structuralist approach to understanding the characte... more 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 nightmare package – its mythos – is related to a spectrum of charms and related belief-narratives. Charms against the nightmare are investigated, as are sleep charms as representative of the nightmare narrative of threat coming close to fruition. Detail is provided on spiritual beings believed to attack the sleeper, as well as on charms as methods to ward off such attacks. Psychological explanations are considered, such as the nightmare antagonist being a disguised avatar of the self.
Contemporary explorations in the culture of the Low …, Jan 1, 1996
Page 231. Dreams and Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Dulle Grief Louise S. Milne Edinburgh Co... more Page 231. Dreams and Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Dulle Grief Louise S. Milne Edinburgh College of Art, Heriot-Watt University In his Schilderboek (l6Q4: 155), Karel van Mander uses an old proverb to talk of a painting (fig. 1) by ...
This article takes a semiotic and structuralist approach to understanding the characte... more 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 nightmare package – its mythos – is related to a spectrum of charms and related belief-narratives. Charms against the nightmare are investigated, as are sleep charms as representative of the nightmare narrative of threat coming close to fruition. Detail is provided on spiritual beings believed to attack the sleeper, as well as on charms as methods to ward off such attacks. Psychological explanations are considered, such as the nightmare antagonist being a disguised avatar of the self.
Contemporary explorations in the culture of the Low …, Jan 1, 1996
Page 231. Dreams and Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Dulle Grief Louise S. Milne Edinburgh Co... more Page 231. Dreams and Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Dulle Grief Louise S. Milne Edinburgh College of Art, Heriot-Watt University In his Schilderboek (l6Q4: 155), Karel van Mander uses an old proverb to talk of a painting (fig. 1) by ...
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