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Ceann na Caillí ('The Hag's Head'), the southernmost tip of the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare.One of many locations named for the Cailleach. [3]Cailleach ('old woman' or 'hag' in modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic) [1] [4] comes from the Old Irish Caillech ('veiled one'), an adjectival form of caille ('veil'), an early loan from Latin pallium, [5] 'woollen cloak'.
In Newfoundland, sleep paralysis is referred to as the Old Hag, [34] [45] and victims of a hagging are said to be hag-ridden upon awakening. [46] Victims report being completely conscious, but unable to speak or move, and report a person or an animal which sits upon their chest. [47] Despite the name, the attacker can be either male or female. [48]
The night hag or old hag is the name given to a supernatural creature, commonly associated with the phenomenon of sleep paralysis. It is a phenomenon in which the sleeper feels the presence of a supernatural, malevolent being which immobilizes the person as if sitting on their chest or the foot of their bed.
Gustave Doré Death on the Pale Horse (1865) – The fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse. Death is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse portrayed in the Book of Revelation, in Revelation 6:7–8. [36] And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
The legend of the cyhyraeth is sometimes conflated with tales of the Gwrach-y-Rhibyn [6] (pronounced [ˈɡwrɑːx ə ˈr̩ibɨn]) or Hag of the Mist, a monstrous Welsh spirit in the shape of a hideously ugly woman – a Welsh saying, to describe a woman without good looks, goes, "Y mae mor salw â Gwrach y Rhibyn" (she is as ugly as the Gwrach y Rhibyn) [7] – with a harpy-like appearance ...
The Bahamian Hag as described by Clavel: "when a hag enters your house, she always shed her skin. When you first see her, she appears like the flame of a candle floating about; in some way, she puts you to sleep, and resumes her body (but without the skin); she then lies on you, and sucks away every drop of blood that God has put in you."
The hag appears by the Yomotsu-shikome (or Ugly-Female-of-the-Underworld" [1]) name in the eldest Japanese chronicle Kojiki.But either eight demon-hags (female oni) or a woman/women named Yomotsu-hisame hunted after Izanagi according to the Nihon Shoki, which frequently gives different readings from alternative sources.
Articles relating to hags, wizened old women, or a kind of fairies, witches, or goddesses having the appearance of such a woman. They are often found in folklore and children's tales such as "Hansel and Gretel".