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Nightmare formerly meant an evil spirit that was supposed to harass or suffocate sleeping people. The word came from two words -- night + Old English mare, which meant an evil spirit. In the late 13th century it meant an evil female spirit afflicting sleepers with a feeling of suffocation.

Mare with this meaning is now obsolete in English

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