Dominic Kelly: Mara – Dream, Forest & Folklore #39

In the middle of the night, you find yourself caught between dream and wakefulness, unable to move, unable to scream, with the feeling that someone's sitting on your chest.
There are many names for this condition. Sleep paralysis. The Old Hag. The Nightmare. Mara. With returning guest, performance storyteller Dominic Kelly, we delve into this fascinating phenomenon that is deeply entrenched in the borderlands of folklore and belief.


Dominic Kelly
http://dominickelly.net/
MARA at Stealing Thunder storytelling festival in England on 3rd june 2023
https://stealingthunder.co.uk/
MARA at Helgoya Fortellerfestival in Norway on 5th august 2023
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092327174348


Bird sounds recorded by
Ulf Elman
https://xeno-canto.org/762155
Jelmer Poelstra
https://xeno-canto.org/235198


PODCAST LINKS
https://www.intheborderlands.com/
https://www.patreon.com/IntheBorderlands
https://www.facebook.com/intheborderlands
https://www.instagram.com/intheborderlands_podcast/

EMAIL
[email protected]

TORGRIM'S LINKS
https://www.brittle.one/
https://www.facebook.com/kloverknekten
https://www.instagram.com/kloverknekten/

MIKAEL'S LINKS
https://smarturl.it/inanna
https://www.facebook.com/mikael.oberg.performance.storyteller
https://www.instagram.com/mikaelobergstoryteller/


REFERENCES
Mara
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_(folklore)
Sleep paralysis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
Sleep Paralysis på Shelley R Adler (book)
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/sleep-paralysis/9780813548869
Hmong people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_people
Nocebo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo
The Old Hag of Newfoundland
https://nuvomagazine.com/culture/canadian-urban-legends-newfoundlanders-can-tell-you-all-about-the-old-hag
The Nightmare (film)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3317522/?ref_=vp_close
The Terror That Comes in the Night by David J. Hufford (book)
https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Terror_That_Comes_in_the_Night.html?id=Qsd0CAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Hälsingland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4lsingland
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker (book)
https://books.google.se/books/about/Why_We_Sleep.html?id=mIh4swEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
Granskogsfolk by David Thurfjell (book)
https://www.norstedts.se/bok/9789113102771/granskogsfolk
The Dreaming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dreaming
Avebury
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avebury
West Kennet Long Barrow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Kennet_Long_Barrow
Hallucinations by Oliver Sachs (book)
https://www.oliversacks.com/oliver-sacks-books/hallucinations/
The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram (book)
https://www.davidabram.org/books
The Encounter by Simon McBurney/Complicité (performance)
http://www.complicite.org/productions/TheEncounter
Reservoir 13 by John McGregor (book)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34146665-reservoir-13
Ravens in Winter by Bernd Heinrich (book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravens_in_Winter