event

childhood nightmare

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Properties

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description
A vivid and terrifying childhood experience of the narrator being sent to bed early and feeling a 'supernatural hand' in the dark, which he later compares to his strange sensations upon waking next to Queequeg.
duration
several hours, ages piled on ages
key_element
supernatural hand
protagonist
Narrator (child)
setting
little room in the third floor

Relationships

  • involvedSupernatural Hand
    description
    The central terrifying element of the narrator's childhood nightmare was the sensation of a supernatural hand in his own.
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    source_text
    but a supernatural hand seemed placed in mine. My arm hung over the counterpane, and the nameless, unimaginable, silent form or phantom, to which the hand belonged, seemed closely seated by my bed-side
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    2026-03-02T00:02:42.133Z
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