Night fears from Harry Potter (Slightly OT!)

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 4432

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Denise Rogers" <gypsycaine at y...> 
wrote:
> Rita,
> I like that poem now, but as a kid, my parents taught the typical 
Christian prayer, Now I lay me down to sleep....I disliked intensely 
the last two lines, if I die...  (Still shudders about those lines 
years later!)

Yup, me too, I was terrified by the if I die before I wake line...


> 
> At the age of Peg's daughter (7-9 years), I had a few nightmares 
due to movies (like Ichabod Disney's version that used to be on each 
Halloween used to scare me half to death!)

is this the Headless Horseman? If yes, me too!


 or other things, (believe this or not) like the six o clock news!  
(or the 11 o'clock, which I didn't get to see often)
> 
> I used to have nightmares about floods, tornadoes, and such...
> 
> but the most frequent one was fire.  I dreamt nightly about the 
house catching on fire.  Nothing anyone did would stop it.
> 
> It's the age.  
> 
> Dee
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Rita Winston 
>   To: HPforGrownups at egroups.com 
>   Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 9:42 PM
>   Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Night fears from Harry Potter
> 
> 
>   --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Peg Kerr <pkerr06 at a...> wrote:
> 
>   > But I was wondering . . . how about you other parents out there 
who
>   > have read Harry Potter to your kids.  Have you encountered any 
>   > night fears  due to the books?  How have you handled them?
> 
>   I don't have any children, but I remember that when I was a 
child, I 
>   had night fears of the Black Riders (Nazgul) when I read Lord of 
the 
>   Rings. I dealt with it by reciting the "Four posts around my bed,
>   four angels round my head" nursery rhyme. Which was very helpful 
even 
>   tho' my bed didn't have posts and I don't believe in the four 
>   evangelists.
> 
>   Four post around my bed
>   Four angels round my head
>   Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
>   bless the bed that I lay on
>   and if I die before I wake
>   I pray the Lord my soul to take.
> 
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