{"id":4479,"date":"2026-04-27T10:32:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/night-beings-and-sleep-paralysis\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:42:11","slug":"night-beings-and-sleep-paralysis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/night-beings-and-sleep-paralysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Beings and Sleep Paralysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"4479\" class=\"elementor elementor-4479 elementor-1956\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-am-nachtw-hero e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"am-nachtw-hero\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-am-nachtw-herohl e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"am-nachtw-herohl\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-am-nachtw-c3ceb6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"am-nachtw-c3ceb6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-am-nachtw-96ae5e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"am-nachtw-96ae5e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Night Beings and Sleep Paralysis<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-am-nachtw-e45238 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"am-nachtw-e45238\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Night beings are nocturnal or sleep-state-associated entities described in <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Religious ideas and customs that are widespread in everyday life.\" tabindex=\"0\">folk belief<\/span>, the history of medicine and neuropsychiatry, such as incubi, succubi, mare beings or sleep paralysis manifestations. Cultural and historical evidence ranges from <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Transitional epoch between antiquity and the Middle Ages, roughly the 3rd to 7th century.\" tabindex=\"0\">late antique<\/span> Christian <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The theology and writings of the Church Fathers (2nd to 8th c.), e.g. Augustine, Jerome, Origen, Chrysostom.\" tabindex=\"0\">patristic<\/span> texts through medieval witch-trial records to modern clinical documentation of <a class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" href=\"\/en\/sleep-paralysis\/\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Wachzustand bei muskul\u00e4rer REM-Atonie; weltweit als Geistererfahrung gedeutet (Mahr, Old Hag, Kanashibari) \u2013 neurologisch erkl\u00e4rbar.\" style=\"color:inherit;text-decoration:none\">sleep paralysis<\/a><\/span> and hypnagogic hallucinations.<\/p><p>The boundary between phenomenological experience and metaphysical reality remains contested across disciplines and cultures. Their existence is interpreted in cultural-historical terms as a manifestation of unconscious fear or of genuine parapsychic phenomena.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-am-nachtw-klsbdg e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"am-nachtw-klsbdg\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-am-nachtw-klshtm elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"am-nachtw-klshtm\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"iwg-pill-row\"><span class=\"iwg-klasse-badge\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Klassen-\u00dcbersicht: Hub-Page zu einer Wesensklasse (H\u00f6llenwesen, Nachtwesen etc.), funktional gegliedert, kulturen\u00ad\u00fcbergreifend.\">Class Overview<\/span><span class=\"iwg-kultur-badge\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Kultur\u00fcbergreifendes Ph\u00e4nomen, in mehreren 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elementor-element-am-nachtw-herorg e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"am-nachtw-herorg\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-am-nachtw-heroim iwg-hero-image elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"am-nachtw-heroim\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/geister_nachtwesen-683x1024.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-4480\" alt=\"Night beings: sleep paralysis beings\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/geister_nachtwesen-683x1024.webp 683w, https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/geister_nachtwesen-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/geister_nachtwesen-768x1152.webp 768w, https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/geister_nachtwesen.webp 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-wmd-s1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"wmd-s1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-wmd-h1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"wmd-h1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Quick Overview (Definition List)<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-am-wmdt1-bw e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"am-wmdt1-bw\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-wmd-t1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"wmd-t1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Type:<\/strong> Supernatural phenomena \/ being categorization Class: night beings Distribution: cross-cultural (European, Asian, African, etc.) Main characteristics: nocturnal activity, aversion to light, often demonic or malicious, influence on sleep, territorial behavior Related subcategories: <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A spiritual being to which harmful or ambivalent effect is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">demons<\/span>, <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A bodiless being to which agency in the world is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">spirits<\/span> of the dead, ghosts, vampires, practices<\/p><p>Night being concepts and <a class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" href=\"\/en\/sleep-paralysis\/\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Wahrnehmungs-Zustand, in dem das Bewusstsein erwacht, der K\u00f6rper aber durch REM-Atonie noch gel\u00e4hmt ist.\" style=\"color:inherit;text-decoration:none\">sleep paralysis<\/a> experiences occur worldwide in many mythologies.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-wmd-s2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"wmd-s2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-wmd-h2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"wmd-h2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Concept and Definition<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-am-wmdt2-bw e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"am-wmdt2-bw\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-wmd-t2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"wmd-t2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Night beings are a functional category, not an ontological one. A night being could be a <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Geistiges Wesen, dem sch\u00e4dliche oder zwiesp\u00e4ltige Wirkung zugeschrieben wird.\" tabindex=\"0\">demon<\/span>, a <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"An incorporeal being to which effects in the world are attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">spirit<\/span> of the dead, a fairy, or a shapeshifter; the shared property is nocturnal activity and a binding to the night.<\/p><p>In the European context night beings are often evil or at least dangerous to people; in other traditions they can be neutral or benevolent. In contrast to specific being names (Yuurei, Kappa, Banshee), night beings is an overarching concept that brings together various traditions. Protection against them requires night-specific measures (light, prayers, iron, salt lines).<\/p><div><h3>Night Beings as a Functional Class<\/h3><p>The class of night beings is a functional category, not an ontological one. It covers beings from various classes (ghosts, demons, lesser gods) whose common denominator is the binding to the night or to the sleep state.<\/p><p>This binding is not accidental in cultural-historical terms: in practically all developed cultures the night is the sphere of obscurity, of the uncontrollable and of the encounter with the Other.<\/p><p>The phenomenology of <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The academic discipline that studies religions comparatively and without confessional commitment.\" tabindex=\"0\">religion<\/span> (<span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Rum\u00e4nischer Religionswissenschaftler (1907\u20131986); pr\u00e4gte die religionsph\u00e4nomenologische Methode.\">Mircea Eliade<\/span>, <em>The <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Belonging to the divine and thereby withdrawn from everyday use.\" tabindex=\"0\">Sacred<\/span> and the Profane<\/em>, 1957) has analyzed the night as a cosmological sphere of threshold transition.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-wmd-s3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"wmd-s3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-wmd-h3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"wmd-h3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Cultural and Historical Examples<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-am-wmdt3-bw e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"am-wmdt3-bw\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-wmd-t3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"wmd-t3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Germanic and European <em>Mahr<\/em> or <em>Mare<\/em> is a night being that sits on sleepers and causes nightmares, a demonic being bound to the night and to the subconscious. The Roman <em>incubus<\/em> and the <em>succubus<\/em> are nocturnal demons that seduce or assault sleepers, a classic night being category with a sexual aspect.<\/p><p>The Japanese <em>kanashibari<\/em> phenomenon is a nocturnal paralysis caused by supernatural beings, with the night central to the mechanics, often accompanied by pressure on the chest. In African and Afro-Caribbean traditions, <em>jumbie<\/em> or <em>obeah<\/em> entities are often nocturnal and cause illness or madness.<\/p><p>The Chinese <em>jiangshi<\/em> (zombie corpse) is nocturnal and fears light; sunlight can destroy it or drive it back to the grave. European <em>vampires<\/em> are the prototypical night being: they can act only at night and fear sunlight, crosses, <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Belonging to the divine and thereby withdrawn from everyday use.\" tabindex=\"0\">holy<\/span> water and garlic.<\/p><p>In the European <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Fr\u00fchneuzeitliche Verfolgung von Personen unter der Anklage des Hexen-Pakts mit dem Teufel; 1450\u20131750.\">witch persecutions<\/span>, nocturnal witch flights were central, with night being activity treated as proof of a <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"In the Christian-medieval tradition, a formal contract between a human and a demon, often signed in blood.\" tabindex=\"0\">pact<\/span> with the devil. Slavic <em>vily<\/em> (fairies) are in part nocturnal and take revenge on those who transgress their rules.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-wmd-s4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"wmd-s4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-wmd-h4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"wmd-h4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">State of the Sources<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-am-wmdt4-bw e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"am-wmdt4-bw\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-wmd-t4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"wmd-t4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Night being concepts are documented in medieval European texts, in demonological writings (<a class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" href=\"\/en\/the-witches-hammer-malleus-maleficarum\/\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Lateinischer Originaltitel des Hexenhammers; 1486\/87 in Speyer erschienen.\" style=\"color:inherit;text-decoration:none\">Malleus Maleficarum<\/a><\/a>, demonological handbooks), in ethnographic records and in <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Die \u00fcberlieferte Volkskultur mit Br\u00e4uchen, Erz\u00e4hlungen und Liedern.\" tabindex=\"0\">folklore<\/span> collections.<\/p><p>The distinction between night beings as a physical phenomenon (genuine nocturnal anomalies) and as supernatural is often blurred in historical texts. Medical explanations (sleep paralysis, sleepwalking, REM intrusions, sleep apnea) have partly clarified some night being reports, but they do not explain all cases.<\/p><div><a class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" href=\"\/en\/sleep-paralysis\/\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Wachzustand bei muskul\u00e4rer REM-Atonie; weltweit als Geistererfahrung gedeutet (Mahr, Old Hag, Kanashibari) \u2013 neurologisch erkl\u00e4rbar.\" style=\"color:inherit;text-decoration:none\">sleep paralysis<\/a><p>Phenomenological research over recent decades has documented a significant overlap between <a class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" href=\"\/en\/sleep-paralysis\/\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Wachzustand bei muskul\u00e4rer REM-Atonie; weltweit als Geistererfahrung gedeutet (Mahr, Old Hag, Kanashibari) \u2013 neurologisch erkl\u00e4rbar.\" style=\"color:inherit;text-decoration:none\">sleep paralysis<\/a> experiences and night being reports.<\/p><p>David Hufford has shown in <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Der nat\u00fcrliche Muskel-Hemmungs-Zustand des REM-Schlafs; bei Schlafparalyse persistiert er kurz nach dem Erwachen.\">REM atonia<\/span> (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982) that sleep paralysis reports from various cultures share strikingly consistent phenomenological core elements: waking with an inability to move, a perceived presence, pressure on the chest, sometimes sounds or visual apparitions.<\/p><p>This constancy can be traced in scientific terms to <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Der nat\u00fcrliche Muskel-Hemmungs-Zustand des REM-Schlafs; bei Schlafparalyse persistiert er kurz nach dem Erwachen.\">REM atonia<\/span>, in which the motor inhibition of REM sleep persists into the waking state.<\/p><p>The cultural layer of night being reports is not identical with the phenomenological one.<\/p><p>While the <a class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" href=\"\/en\/sleep-paralysis\/\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Wachzustand bei muskul\u00e4rer REM-Atonie; weltweit als Geistererfahrung gedeutet (Mahr, Old Hag, Kanashibari) \u2013 neurologisch erkl\u00e4rbar.\" style=\"color:inherit;text-decoration:none\">sleep paralysis<\/a> symptoms have universal constants, the cultural interpretation of the encounter is <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The passing on of knowledge and narratives across generations.\" tabindex=\"0\">tradition<\/span>-specific: Mahr in the Germanic, Lilith in the Jewish, Empusa in the Greek, Krasue in the Thai, <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Im Quran Wesen aus rauchlosem Feuer mit freiem Willen, weder Engel noch D\u00e4mon, sondern eine eigenst\u00e4ndige Sch\u00f6pfung mit eigener Moral.\">jinn<\/span> in the Arab tradition. This variety shows that the phenomenological universal is framed differently from culture to culture.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-wmd-s5 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"wmd-s5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-wmd-h5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"wmd-h5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Present-Day Significance \/ Related Beings<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-am-wmdt5-bw e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"am-wmdt5-bw\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-wmd-t5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"wmd-t5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Belief in night beings lives on in modern horror and paranormal research. Unexplained nocturnal events (sounds, feelings of presence, paralysis, shadow people) are often attributed to night beings. The concept is therapeutically relevant: sleep disorders and nightmares are often interpreted in <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Collective term for teachings that claim a hidden knowledge accessible only to initiates.\" tabindex=\"0\">esoteric<\/span> contexts as attacks by night beings.<\/p><p>Paranormal teams regularly document nocturnal activity at haunted sites. The night remains symbolically the realm of unconscious forces, and night beings are their embodiments. Related beings are <em>demons<\/em>, <em>vampires<\/em>, <em>ghosts<\/em>, and <em>shadow people<\/em>, specialized in nocturnal activity.<\/p><h3>Sleep-Medicine Classification<\/h3><p>The night being tradition stands in close connection with the sleep-medicine phenomenon of <a class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" href=\"\/en\/sleep-paralysis\/\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Wachzustand bei muskul\u00e4rer REM-Atonie; weltweit als Geistererfahrung gedeutet (Mahr, Old Hag, Kanashibari) \u2013 neurologisch erkl\u00e4rbar.\" style=\"color:inherit;text-decoration:none\">sleep paralysis<\/a>. The cross-cultural constancy of the reports, an oppressive figure on the chest, the sense of immobility, acoustic and visual hallucinations, is explained neurophysiologically by the universal activation of the amygdala during the REM waking phase.<\/p><p>The cultural profile of the apparition, Mahr, incubus, Mara, Old Hag, Pesanta, kanashibari, varies by folk culture; the underlying phenomenology is constant.<\/p><h3>Continuity in the History of Religion<\/h3><p>The religious-historical tradition of night beings is documented especially densely in the folk-belief collections of Europe. Hans B\u00e4chtold-St\u00e4ubli&#8217;s &#8220;Handw\u00f6rterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens&#8221; (1927, 1942) is the central lexical reference; David J. Hufford&#8217;s &#8220;The Terror that Comes in the Night&#8221; (1982) first systematically established the connection to <a class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" href=\"\/en\/sleep-paralysis\/\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Wachzustand bei muskul\u00e4rer REM-Atonie; weltweit als Geistererfahrung gedeutet (Mahr, Old Hag, Kanashibari) \u2013 neurologisch erkl\u00e4rbar.\" style=\"color:inherit;text-decoration:none\">sleep paralysis<\/a> research.<\/p><p>More recent work in the sleep paralysis complex (<span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Britischer Historiker (geb. 1969); Hauptwerke Grimoires (2009) und Paranormal (2009).\">Owen Davies<\/span>, &#8220;Paranormal Experiences&#8221;, 2017) has further differentiated the picture.<\/p><div><h3>iWell Guard Protection Against Night Beings<\/h3><p>In the protective <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Eine heilige Silbe oder Formel, die im Hinduismus und Buddhismus wiederholt gesprochen wird.\" tabindex=\"0\">mantra<\/span>, night beings are addressed across several layers. Layer 1 (spatial protective field) covers them through the category of ghosts and demons, whose effect is neutralized within the radius of the pendant. Layer 6 (protection against energy drain) explicitly addresses the energy-draining function of many night beings.<\/p><p>Layer 8 (<span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Das bittende oder beschw\u00f6rende Ansprechen einer Gottheit oder Macht.\" tabindex=\"0\">invocation<\/span> of positive beings) activates the protective counterpart, that is, the beings of light that are <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The petitioning or invoking address to a deity or power.\" tabindex=\"0\">invoked<\/span> in the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Relating to formalized magical procedures, with a fixed apparatus of incantations, symbols and tools.\" tabindex=\"0\">ritual-magical<\/span> tradition as protection against nocturnal threat (in the Christian-Catholic tradition above all the archangel Michael, in the Jewish the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"In den abrahamitischen Religionen ein himmlisches Botenwesen Gottes.\" tabindex=\"0\">angel<\/span> trio Senoy, Sansenoy, Semangelof against Lilith).<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-sub-mem-nachtwesen e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"sub-mem-nachtwesen\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-sub-mem-h-nachtwesen elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"sub-mem-h-nachtwesen\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Beings in This Category<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-am-inner-0001 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"am-inner-0001\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-sub-mem-t-nachtwesen elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"sub-mem-t-nachtwesen\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"iwg-wesen-grid\"><a class=\"iwg-wesen-card\" href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/alp\/\" aria-label=\"Alp \u2013 Germanic\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-imgwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geister_germanisch_alp-200x300.webp\" alt=\"Alp \u2013 Germanic\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-body\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-name\">Alp<\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-arrow\">\u2192 To the being<\/div><\/div><\/a><a class=\"iwg-wesen-card\" href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/banshee\/\" aria-label=\"Banshee \u2013 Celtic\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-imgwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geister_keltisch_banshee-200x300.webp\" alt=\"Banshee \u2013 Celtic\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-body\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-name\">Banshee<\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-arrow\">\u2192 To the being<\/div><\/div><\/a><a class=\"iwg-wesen-card\" href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/cheonyeo-gwishin\/\" aria-label=\"Cheonyeo-gwishin \u2013 Korea\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-imgwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geister_korea_cheonyeo-gwishin-200x300.webp\" alt=\"Cheonyeo-gwishin \u2013 Korea\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-body\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-name\">Cheonyeo-gwishin<\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-arrow\">\u2192 To the being<\/div><\/div><\/a><a class=\"iwg-wesen-card\" href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/empusa\/\" aria-label=\"Empusa \u2013 Greece\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-imgwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/daemonen_griechenland_empusa-200x300.webp\" alt=\"Empusa \u2013 Greece\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-body\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-name\">Empusa<\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-arrow\">\u2192 To the being<\/div><\/div><\/a><a class=\"iwg-wesen-card\" href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/gwishin\/\" aria-label=\"Gwishin \u2013 Korea\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-imgwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geister_korea_gwishin-200x300.webp\" alt=\"Gwishin \u2013 Korea\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-body\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-name\">Gwishin<\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-arrow\">\u2192 To the being<\/div><\/div><\/a><a class=\"iwg-wesen-card\" href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/kikimora\/\" aria-label=\"Kikimora \u2013 Slavic\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-imgwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geister_slawisch_kikimora-200x300.webp\" alt=\"Kikimora \u2013 Slavic\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-body\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-name\">Kikimora<\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-arrow\">\u2192 To the being<\/div><\/div><\/a><a class=\"iwg-wesen-card\" href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/lamia\/\" aria-label=\"Lamia \u2013 Greece\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-imgwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/daemonen_griechenland_lamia-200x300.webp\" alt=\"Lamia \u2013 Greece\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-body\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-name\">Lamia<\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-arrow\">\u2192 To the being<\/div><\/div><\/a><a class=\"iwg-wesen-card\" href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/lilith\/\" aria-label=\"Lilith \u2013 Judaism\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-imgwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/daemonen_judentum_lilith-200x300.webp\" alt=\"Lilith \u2013 Judaism\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-body\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-name\">Lilith<\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-arrow\">\u2192 To the being<\/div><\/div><\/a><a class=\"iwg-wesen-card\" href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/mahr\/\" aria-label=\"Mahr \u2013 Germanic\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-imgwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geister_germanisch_mahr-200x300.webp\" alt=\"Mahr \u2013 Germanic\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-body\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-name\">Mahr<\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-arrow\">\u2192 To the being<\/div><\/div><\/a><a class=\"iwg-wesen-card\" href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/mara\/\" aria-label=\"Mara \u2013 Buddhism\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-imgwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/goetter_buddhismus_mara-200x300.webp\" alt=\"Mara \u2013 Buddhism\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-body\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-name\">Mara<\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-arrow\">\u2192 To the being<\/div><\/div><\/a><a class=\"iwg-wesen-card\" href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/sluagh\/\" aria-label=\"Sluagh \u2013 Celtic\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-imgwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geister_keltisch_sluagh-200x300.webp\" alt=\"Sluagh \u2013 Celtic\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-body\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-name\">Sluagh<\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-arrow\">\u2192 To the being<\/div><\/div><\/a><a class=\"iwg-wesen-card\" href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/striga\/\" aria-label=\"Striga \u2013 Rome\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-imgwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geister_rom_striga-200x300.webp\" alt=\"Striga \u2013 Rome\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-body\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-name\">Striga<\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-arrow\">\u2192 To the being<\/div><\/div><\/a><a class=\"iwg-wesen-card\" href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/vetala\/\" aria-label=\"Vetala \u2013 Hinduism\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-imgwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geister_hinduismus_vetala-200x300.webp\" alt=\"Vetala \u2013 Hinduism\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-body\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-name\">Vetala<\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-arrow\">\u2192 To the being<\/div><\/div><\/a><a class=\"iwg-wesen-card\" href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/yuki-onna\/\" aria-label=\"Yuki-onna \u2013 Japan\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-imgwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geister_japan_yuki-onna-200x300.webp\" alt=\"Yuki-onna \u2013 Japan\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-body\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-name\">Yuki-onna<\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-arrow\">\u2192 To the being<\/div><\/div><\/a><a class=\"iwg-wesen-card\" href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/yurei\/\" aria-label=\"Y\u016brei \u2013 Japan\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-imgwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geister_japan_yuurei-1-200x300.webp\" alt=\"Y\u016brei \u2013 Japan\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-body\"><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-name\">Y\u016brei<\/div><div class=\"iwg-wesen-card-arrow\">\u2192 To the being<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgce-nach-sec e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgce-nach-sec\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" id=\"iwg-ce-nachtwesen\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgce-nach-inner e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgce-nach-inner\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgce-nach-h iwg-ce-heading elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgce-nach-h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">iWell Guard and Protective Traditions<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgce-nach-t iwg-ce-intro elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgce-nach-t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The night beings and their defensive practices gathered here are a study in the academic discipline of <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The discipline that studies religions comparatively and without confessional commitment.\" tabindex=\"0\">religious studies<\/span>.<\/p><div data-nosnippet=\"true\"><p>iWell Guard continues the millennia-old line of portable protective objects, from <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/pazuzu\/\">Pazuzu<\/a> pendants in Mesopotamia through the <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/hamsa\/\">Hamsa<\/a> and <a href=\"\/en\/evil-eye\/\">evil-eye<\/a> <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A worn object to which a protective, misfortune-averting effect is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">amulets<\/span> of the Mediterranean region to the <a 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