Yoob yoob
I used to have the same nightmare as a kid of an old wild haired woman with a big nose the same as postman pats. That would chase me down an infinite corridor with doors up each side her name was yoob yoob. In the dream I would run and run until I was far enough away and hide behind one of the doors and I would her her screaming up the corridor opening and slamming the doors as she got closer I would wake up before she found me. The last time I had that dream I had got to the end of the corridor and jumped out a window. I still shudder when I think of her
(hughheff just been tipped 5 dollars, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 23:49, 6 replies)

Interesting...
In his collection of essays, 'The Voice that Thunders', Alan Garner describes the hallucinations he had when suffering fevers as a child. He'd feel like he'd floated up through the ceiling of his room and into some place where there was an old woman. The woman would go after him but he knew that he must never let her catch up with him, because if she touched him, he would die.
(Cameltoad, Sat 9 Apr 2011, 7:30, closed)

For some reason I found that really funny

( Major Turd for tonight only, Sat 9 Apr 2011, 12:14, closed)

why hello yoob yoob, you are maybe an archetype from the collective unconscious as described by Jung, yes?
( vladimir, Sat 9 Apr 2011, 13:27, closed)

Funnily enough, I was in a shop in Vancouver today that specialised in First Nations art. One of the pieces on sale was a giant black mask of an old woman with wild hair who was supposed to live in the woods. See coghlanart.com/tsonokwa.htm. Her modus operandi is to stagger around the forest looking for children to eat.

The other thing is that she is also called 'hu hu' or 'uh uh', which is supposed to be the noise she makes. Which if you stand on one leg and half close your eyes, sounds a bit like 'yoob yoob'.
(Cameltoad, Sun 10 Apr 2011, 5:21, closed)

Kind of reminds me of Baba Yaga
Strange old hag woman who ate childeren from Russian folkelore. Sounds very similar to the dream. Also, according to this article the name may come from a corruption of slavic baby talk - which made me think of the name yoob yoob....

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sun 10 Apr 2011, 15:15, closed)

I would also like to draw your attention to the Dust Witch in Ray Bradury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, who seems similar to the Alan Garner figure
www.shmoop.com/something-wicked-this-way-comes/the-dust-witch.html
( vladimir, Sun 10 Apr 2011, 8:55, closed)