HUMA 1951 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Microsoft Powerpoint, Incubus, Crop Circle
4 Dec 2015
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Experience- centered methodology focus on the phenomenon described rather than the cultural interpretation a. k. a phenomenological approach subjective experience of consciousness as experienced from the first persons point of view. Old hag is sleep paralysis, occurs during the transition between deep sleep and waking up. In newfoundland, the old hag is a witch who leaves her body at night to assault the victim as they sleep. The word nightmare comes from the anglo-saxon neaht or nicht (=night) and mara [=incubus (imaginary evil spirit supposed to descended on people who sleep)] Every night when he went to bed he felt as if someone was pressing on his chest like he was being strangled. An old man suggested he place a piece of board directly across his chest and open a picket knife held between his hands. When he did, the next morning, the knife was in the bored. If it weren"t for the board he would have been killed.
