Infernal Koshmar

Dream spirits who use infernal powers.

Alp: a 3' tall spirit wearing a tarnakappe, a magical hat that gives them their powers. They are very powerful and dangerous spirits who have many powers, including but not limited to sleep paralysis, souring milk, tangling horse's manes, crushing small animals, causing minor illnesses, mimicking dead relatives, swapping out newborns, causing stillbirths, and turning invisible. They are shapeshifters who usually appear to be small figures with their caps, but will sometimes become a cat, pig, dog, snake, or small white butterfly - always wearing the cap. Some of them can fly in any form. One of their eyes can cause illness or misfortune with their gaze - if this eye is removed, they become nice and kind. They feed on blood or breast milk. They can enter a house via a keyhole. They can be repelled by many charms, including special poems, broomsticks under the pillow, iron horseshoes on the bedpost, shoes against the bed with the toes toward the door, some kinds of light, special sentries, mirrors on the chest while you sleep, or steel charms. If one wakes with an alp on them, they may ask them to return for coffee in the morning, and when they return, they can be driven away politely. Putting a lemon in their mouths immobilizes them. They are extremely difficult to kill.

Ammuntadòre: a spirit that does not send or cause nightmares, but appears in them. This spirit takes on the form it had in the most recent dream it was in.

Babau: a spirit that appears only in the imaginations of children, taking on the form they imagine for it, preying on their fear.

Koll, also known as Kolumats, Kaevukoll, Mumm, bogey or bogeyman

Luupainaja, Painaja, incubus, nightmare

Mare

Mazapegul: 3' tall fey with dark grey fur, looking like a cross between a cat and a monkey. They wear red caps on their heads. They come out at night to cause sleep paralysis, seduce women, send nightmares, and knot the hair of horses. They are very particular, though, and any woman they think is "unclean" will drive them away. If a woman is open to their seductions, however, they will help out around the house. They can scratch someone from a distance, magically.

Nocnitsa

Pantafica: a powerful nightmare spirit who takes on different forms, including that of an old woman, large black cat, witch, goblin, gnome, or other small figure. They cause sleep paralysis and steal souls when someone commits suicide. They are among the most wicked of spirits. Brooms, bags of legumes or sand near the bed keeps them at bay, as they end up counting them (the whiskers of the broom, the legumes, or the sand). Those rare pantaficas who choose not to bring nightmares and torment people slowly transform into other kinds of spirits.

Slogutis means pain, misery or nightmare. Also can mean fear or bad feelings.

Zburător, spirit