This is a long Post in Regards to Night Terrors with a ?

[Symandinome]

Hi everyone! Im writing to all of you from Amsterdam, Netherlands. I am an American living here now. My reason for this post is because of a problem with my boyfriend. This is not a relationship problem this is a spiritual/magickal issue. Here are the details:

My boyfriend Harmen is 36 years old. Since the time he was 9 years old he has been tormented nightly with these fits/episodes that always seem to occur around 3 AM. As I said they began around the time he was 9 years old when his family had moved to a house they had built which as it turns out was built on what they believe was a cemetary at one time.

Durring these night terrors, he is prone to uncontrollable screaming and thrashing about. Speaking and carrying conversations with you and no one at all in not only Dutch Language but also English and at times in a mumbling that cannot be deciphered. Aside for this, he appears to be awake with his eyes open and jumping up to sit up in the bed or to run away from the bed.

Here are some of my own eye witness accounts of this problem but let me preface it by saying that he is not a drug user, is not psychologically disturbed, and he has been to numerous doctors and sleep centers where they have studied him and have found that a prescription of a pill to make his deep sleep deeper was all thats necessary. I however have seen these episodes despite him taking this medication properly:

1. One night not long ago again around 3 AM, he woke up screaming NOOOO and flailing hi arms in a manner in which would look like you were trying to get something off of you. He shot straight up to a sitting position heavily panting with eyes wide open asnd full of fear yet he was not really awake. He continued his screaming and heavy breathing and with immense fear in his eyes his head toggled back and forth between two dark corners in the room, as if something had retreated there and was waiting to pounce on him. This went on for 15 minutes and then subsided. I pulled him down to me and held him and recited prayers while making holy symbols across the inside of his left wrist. Every time I would trace a symbol his body would jerk away from me but i maintained my grip. The bedroom was cast in an uneasy feeling as if we weren't alone. I made the sign of silence and uttered *forgive my spelling* apos pantos ko ki daemanos which is roughly all evil get behind me. The energy in the room cleared.

2. The next morning I gave him a amulet bracelet for protection and he slept peacefully for two days. However, after that it started again. That night he had a fit again this time less severe just thrashing and screaming and i held him and said prayers and it was over.

3. The following night, also at 3 AM, another fit occurred. He shot straight up in the bed screaming in terror and again with eyes wide open he jumped out of bed and turned the lights on in the bedroom. He was panting and full of fear I did not feel any foul energy this time and i began to order him to shut the lights off. I was ignored for about ten minutes as he slowly took baby steps around the room as if examining the area. Eventually he turned the nightstand light on and shut the over head light off. It was another 5 minutes before my screaming at him to shut the lights off sunk in and he complied. He then slept peacefully.

My theory on this is that there is something/someone attacking him while his mind/spirit delve in to different states of consciousness. It would seem to me that he would be in alpha durring or possibly a step deeper durring these episodes. Obviously this would be a perfect time to attack as his soul is stepping out for the night. I feel that this medication has proven itself ineffective and could possibly be hindering the matter more making him *and by him i meen his mind/spirit* too sluggish to properly deal with these things. I have instructed him to stop the medication. Last night was the first night without the medication and we had no incident. All though there was no incident last night this doesn't by any means mean the problem is solved as there are times when nothing happens as well.

My problem I present to you is this: How do I help to fix this problem?

I have already been suggested a witchs' bottle which is a great idea that I am definately going to try for him. I am concerned though that this is just going to be a temporary quick fix. The biggest problem I run into is that I do not have a strong working knowledge of dutch myths and folklore and folk magick to better understand this issue. Which is also why i have a post in the folklore section as well. I welcome any and ALL suggestions.

[gigamira]

It sounds more to me that your boyfriend needs some very intense cleansing/purification rites that someone well versed in these sorts of things should perform. If these terrors are so intense and nothing is working, then it is something best left to professionals.

[Symandinome]

thank you for your suggestion it is appreciated. I have already done cleansing and such. I really feel that it is some how connected to where his family build their house. I need to try to locatd information on the history of the land or at very least the area in which the house and also Dutch legends of a dark nature. I have already found something on The Mara and a spell for it however it is in Dutch and I think If I translate it to English *my native tongue* that it will lose something in the translation. Thanks again for reading and giving your opinion.

[AutumnMaidens]

If you need anything translated from dutch to english you can always drop me a note ^^

Anyway, what you can try is casting a circle around the bed before sleep so that you sleep within energy borders and are protected from negative energies, I did this when my sleeping problems got really bad, I don't know how long those energies hold though because I only needed them till I hit rem sleep so if they dispurse after that I would have no knowlidge of.
You can place certain minerals at the bed corners like amathyst and labradorite (might have spelled that wrong) those are aura cleansers and protecters.
Sage is one of the strongest herbal cleansers out there, you can smudge your boyfriend his aura (on a full moon for instance) and then charge by calling down the lunar energy. You can also use sage to cleanse the room by smudging the bedroom. Be sure to charge it afterwords because sage cleanses all kinds of energies and does not discriminate between good or bad. This should also help against unwanted entities.

Hope this helps
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