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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение. Журналистика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-9220</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-9247</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">32304</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-9220-2022-27-3-514-522</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>LITERARY CRITICISM</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Литературоведение</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Sleep paralysis: at intersection of biology and folklore</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Сонный паралич: на пересечении биологии и фольклора</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8246-5367</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Povetkina</surname><given-names>Polina B.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Поветкина</surname><given-names>Полина Борисовна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Master of Cultural Studies, postgraduate student, Department of Russian Folklore</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>магистр культурологии, аспирант, кафедра русского устного народного творчества</p></bio><email>diana_middls@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Lomonosov Moscow State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Московский государственный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-10-12" publication-format="electronic"><day>12</day><month>10</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>27</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 27, NO3 (2022)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 27, №3 (2022)</issue-title><fpage>514</fpage><lpage>522</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-10-12"><day>12</day><month>10</month><year>2022</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2022, Povetkina P.B.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2022, Поветкина П.Б.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Povetkina P.B.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Поветкина П.Б.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/32304">https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/32304</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The author examines the concept of “sleep paralysis” from the point of view of biology and folk culture. The key components of this concept, highlighted by various authors, touches on the main problems related to this concept, including the relationship between biological and cultural in the context of sleep paralysis, are presented. In addition, the work describes possible interpretations of sleep paralysis, mythological characters associated with it in the folklore of different peoples of the world, and folklore genres in which it is reflected. Moreover, the article contains examples of narratives about cases of sleep paralysis in folklore; outside the cultural tradition, where mythological characters associated with sleep paralysis are known; as well as an example of the appearance of mythological characters connected with manifestations of sleep paralysis not in a mythological text, but in other folklore genres.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Рассматривается понятие «сонный паралич» с точки зрения биологии и народной культуры. Приводятся ключевые составляющие данного понятия, выделенные различными авторами, затронуты основные проблемы, его касающиеся, в том числе соотношение биологического и культурного в контексте сонного паралича. Кроме того, описаны возможные интерпретации сонного паралича, мифологические персонажи, связанные с ним в фольклоре разных народов мира, и фольклорные жанры, в которых он находит отражение. Представлены примеры нарративов о случаях сонного паралича в фольклоре; вне культурной традиции, где известны ассоциированные с сонным параличом мифологические персонажи; а также пример появления мифологических персонажей, связанных с проявлениями сонного паралича, не в мифологическом тексте, а в других фольклорных жанрах.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>sleep paralysis</kwd><kwd>zmora</kwd><kwd>folk demonology</kwd><kwd>mythological text</kwd><kwd>night-mare</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>сонный паралич</kwd><kwd>змора</kwd><kwd>народная демонология</kwd><kwd>мифологический текст</kwd><kwd>ночной кошмар</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Adler, Sh. (2011). Sleep paralysis. Night-mares, nocebos, and the mind-body connection. 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