Topic: Sage Cleansing

A personal account of sleep paralysis describes a bipedal, cloaked figure with a wolf's face—resembling the Egyptian god Anubis—approaching a bed while making animalistic growling noises. The experience was traumatic and required the use of sage for spiritual cleansing to lift the "darkness" from the home. This event is categorized alongside legends like the "Old Hag" as a common but terrifying manifestation of the sleep paralysis state.