Schrättele
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The Schrättele is a local name for the Alptraum nightmare. In Swabia, the Schrättele enters by crawling through the keyhole and sits on the sleeper's chest. It can also enter through the window as a black hen and is named as the perpetrator of the "Alp-pressure" (Albdrücken) bearing down upon the human sleeper's chest or throat.
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“The Alptraum nightmare was known locally under diminutive names such as Schrättele: Schrättel in Switzerland; or Schrättlein; Schrattele, Schrettele in Upper Swabia; Schrecksele around Horb (district), Bühl, Wurmlingen in Swabia, or Schrätzmännel in "Munster valley" (German: Münstertal, Vallée de Munster) in Alsace.”
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