Dark Folklore
Mark Norman & Tracey Norman
The History Press 2021
Hb, 174pp, £14.99, ISBN 9780750998017
There is certainly darkness a-plenty within the world of folklore; what Chthonic treasures will be found in Dark Folklore? Its five chapters offer a bewitching array of lore with fortean interest.
The first chapter, “The Old Hag: Folklore and Sleep Paralysis”, provides a very good overview covering the bases of superstition, psychoanalysis and scientific rationale. Presented are numerous entities associated with the hag-riding phenomenon and aspects of sleep disturbance in world folklore, from the Hungarian Liderc to the Arabian Quarinah and the Alien Grays. The authors
