Mares

Classification
Spirit, Malevolent

Brief Description
A nocturnal spirit that sits upon victims while they sleep and gives them nightmares, these nightmares create fear with the mare will feed on.

Additional Information
Mares are beings that only come out at night, they are invisible to the naked eye. When a mare chooses a victim it will return every night to bring them nightmares, these nightmares will cause the fear that the mare feeds on and will wear upon the victim. Eventually, the victim will simply die from complete exhaustion due to lack of sleep. Mares are classified as a spirit but are sometimes considered to be a low class of demon that lingers in the human realm.

Dealing With A Mare
Their invisibility makes them difficult to deal with, but they can be forced to reveal their physical form by surrounding the bed with silver dust and waiting for the unsuspecting mare to pass through it. Also, the use of a lodestone with a hole drilled through its center can be used to see the mare. Mares are susceptible to blessed steel and silver.