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Popobawa · salience 0.95

“The Popobawa's defining and most notorious act, in the folklore surrounding it, is the sexual assault of men and women alike while they sleep, along with a demand that victims tell others of the attack”

Tikoloshe

“Its attacks in folklore range from strangling or molesting sleepers at night to causing chronic illness or fear that is otherwise unexplained, and it is frequently blamed in folk belief for misfortunes that defy easy explanation.”

Mora

“Male moras are known by a physiognomy — bushy black eyebrows meeting over the nose — and one major strand of the folklore makes the mora not a demon at all but a living person, man or woman, whose soul leaves the body in sleep, takes any of countless forms, and travels to press, suffocate, and feed on a chosen sleeper.”