Night Hag

And so she became an impertinent wife, then a night-hag wandering the world, ever on the hunt to drink the blood of children. ❋ Whitley Strieber (2002)

In contrast with this, we have Milton's description of the Moon when affected by the demoniacal practices of the 'night-hag' who was believed to destroy infants for the sake of drinking their blood, and applying their mangled limbs to the purposes of incantation. ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)

The terror plucked him from his sleep; for a moment he wrestled and struggled to raise his head from the pillow and loosen the clutch of the night-hag who had suddenly seized him, and with choking throat and streaming brow he sat up in bed. ❋ Unknown (1903)

But his struggles were in vain; sooner or later the night-hag would have him by the throat, and pluck him strangling and screaming, from his sleep. ❋ Unknown (1892)

Well, what have you fat Leyden burghers to do with a poor old night-hag, except of course in times of trouble? ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

Dreams, changes Pluto and Proserpine into Oberon and Titania, and makes friends with unseen powers as Good Folk; the other is a bird of night, whose shadow sends a chill among the roots of the hair: it sucks with the vampire, gorges with the ghoule, is choked by the night-hag, pines away under the witch's charm, and commits uncleanness with the embodied ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

Anna Apenborg shut herself up, trembling, in her cell, and even good Dorothea began somewhat to doubt the virtues of the vile sorceress; for the corpse had a strange and unnatural appearance, so that it was horrible to look upon, by which signs it was easy to perceive that he had been prayed to death, as the fearful night-hag had threatened. ❋ Wilhelm Meinhold (1824)

Harmless fairies "nodded to him, and did him curtesies": and the night-hag bestrode the blast at the command of "his so potent art." ❋ William Hazlitt (1804)

--- feverish symptoms all, with which those who are haunted by the night-hag, whom the learned call Ephialtes, are but too well acquainted. ❋ Unknown (1845)

Antiquities (ii. 144) we find, "Gregory mentions an ordinary superstition of the old wives who dare not trust a child in a cradle by itself alone without a candle;" this was for fear of the "night-hag" (Milton, P. L., ii. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

"But then she is unsightly as a _night-hag_, tawny as a Moor, the eye of ❋ Charles Brockden Brown (1790)