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单词 riding of the witch
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riding of the witch
P2. colloquial. riding of the witch: a feeling of suffocation or great distress experienced during sleep; nightmare. Cf. sense 2, witch-riding n. Obsolete.
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1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse iv. f. 29v The Ephialtes, which the vulgar sort tearmes the night-mare, or the riding of the witch.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. 683/2 Riding of the witch, a popular phrase for the nightmare, still in use.
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