Writer: Hoku Lani
Subject: Pisadeira
Link: MEWE / 15.06.2023
Pisadeira
What leaves you trapped in your body, unable to move or scream? For some it’s a faceless, shapeless presence trying to suffocate them. Others describe it as a creepy old hag with claws. Some see an alien and experience what they believe is a full alien abduction. And for others, the demons look like a dead relative.
Different cultures have different explanations for sleep paralysis demons. Canadian Inuit attribute the sleep paralysis to spells of shamans. Japanese folklore says it’s a vengeful spirit that suffocates its enemies in their sleep.
In Brazilian folklore, the demon has a name Pisadeira, which is Portuguese for, “She who steps.” She’s a crone with long fingernails who lurks on rooftops in the night, then walks on the chest of people who sleep belly up on a full stomach. I decided to share this as it is very similar to when someone you never encountered in the physical realm, takes joy or satisfaction from reporting you, and as a result you are blocked or deleted from the platform.
Both are similar, in as much as I have no control over either situation. It matters not to the reporter, who or what you are. It makes no difference to them your physical condition or mental state of SMDSS (social media deletion stress syndrome) or you may be bedridden and the only joy in life are the fantasies experienced here.
These individuals are no different than Pisadeira. As such I will treat them exactly the same way, wake up and live my life.
Hail Lilith’s Scribe
Hoku Lani