Folk remedies to prevent nightmares:

• Stop up the keyhole, place your shoes with the toes facing the door, then get into bed backward.
• Put something made from steel, such as an old pair of scissors, in your bedstraw.
• Urinate into a clean, new bottle, hang the bottle in the sun for three days, carry it — without saying a word — to a running stream, and throw it over your head into the stream.

Or take a small child free of sin, soak it in a bath for a couple of hours, then dry it on a goat or a sheep. The next night, sleep with the naked baby in your bed and you’ll never have nightmares again.