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ˈnight-hag Now rare.
[f. night n. + hag n.1]
A hag or female demon supposed to ride the air by night; the nightmare.
1666Dryden Ann. Mirab. ccxlviii, Dire night-hags come from far to dance their round. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 662 The Night-Hag, when call'd In secret, riding through the Air she comes Lur'd with the smell of infant blood. 1750tr. Leonardus' Mirror Stones 86 A crisolete bound round with gold, and carried in the left hand, drives away night⁓hags. 1814Scott Wav. xiii, When the Night-Hag wings the troubled air. 1834L. Ritchie Wand. by Seine 59 The indefinite dread, which sits like the night-hag on their Souls. |