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By Josiah Clement Maybe you have experienced the sensation-while waking up or falling asleep-of not being able to talk or move. You find that your body is paralyzed. Though you may try to cry out, the sound will not come out of your throat. Meanwhile, your mind is trying to know what's going on. "Sleep Paralysis" Medical Association Guide to getting Better Sleep, l984. I wanted to see if the demon, witch, or cauchemar was still riding.

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abstract	By Josiah Clement Maybe you have experienced the sensation-while waking up or falling asleep-of not being able to talk or move. You find that your body is paralyzed. Though you may try to cry out, the sound will not come out of your throat. Meanwhile, your mind is trying to know what's going on. "Sleep Paralysis" Medical Association Guide to getting Better Sleep, l984. As part of a Folklore Fieldwork research recently, I began gathering mostly second-hand personal experience stories about a spiritual assault tradition called cauchemar or witch-riding in some parts of Louisiana. In modern French, cauchemar has come to mean nightmare. The Dictionary gives a brief definition of the word, tracing it back to the 1560's when it was written quauquemaire. The word cauquer comes from the French dialect in parts of northeastern France, meaning "to press." And the word mare comes from the Dutch for "phantom." This picture of a pressing phantom closely mirrors the active definition of cauchemar among people of black descent with French traditions in Southern Louisiana. In short-although it is kind of hard to be brief about witch-riding experiences because they're so multi-faceted-it's an experience in which someone who is asleep is haunted by a presence that is called cauchemar (also called the demon, a spirit, an evil spirit, a ghost, and a witch by my studies). The individual wakes up and senses, or sometimes even sees, the witch in the room. Sometimes cauchemar is on top of the persons body. The person feels scared but isn't able to move or cry out for help. I originally became interested in this spiritual assault experience while I was watching a seminar at The University of Louisiana on sacred narrative and spiritual belief. They read Rickels' article "Some Accounts of Cauchemar" which came out in l961 in the Louisiana Miscellany. In this article, Rickels records the cauchemar experience narratives of alot of her students who were from Southern Louisiana. When she asked her class if Mather's notes of Brandy Bradshaw-accused of entering a man's room in the night, mounting on top of him, and riding him while he lay paralyzed in his room-sounded like something that had happened to any of them, one student said, "Why, that sounds like cauchemar." After looking at the local notes of cauchemar, or witch riding, that were noted, and later those noted by Dave Rourke in his l958 Miscellany article "Cauchemar and Feu Follet," I was interested in finding out if the tradition was still alive in Louisiana, particularly in the area right around Lafayette. I thought the closing comments of the article a particular challenge: The cauchemar tradition, though still a pretty actice one in our Negro-French cultural community, has lost its moral force. The older people believe cauchemar has a real significance: to warn against wrongdoing. The younger people believe the experience is just something that happens without any real reason or meaning. most likely the next step will be for demons to stop riding altogether. I wanted to see if the demon, witch, or cauchemar was still riding.

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