Night hag

Night hag - name given to a supernatural creature, used to explain the phenomenon of sleep paralysis. Article “Night hag” in English Wikipedia has 42.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 32 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.24 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Night hag”, its content was written by 85 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 169 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 22 times in English Wikipedia and cited 77 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #13777 in November 2023
• Global: #29170 in November 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #41646 in January 2020
• Global: #54578 in December 2023

There are 4 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Night hag		42.4719
2	Arabic (ar) عفريت الليل		20.1799
3	Persian (fa) بختک		18.1723
4	Greek (el) Μαύρη Μόρα		15.4224

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Night hag" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Night hag		1 875 620
2	Persian (fa) بختک		1 073 137
3	Greek (el) Μαύρη Μόρα		97 577
4	Arabic (ar) عفريت الليل		21 520

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Night hag" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Night hag		9 127
2	Persian (fa) بختک		4 113
3	Greek (el) Μαύρη Μόρα		973
4	Arabic (ar) عفريت الليل		195

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Night hag" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Night hag		85
2	Persian (fa) بختک		69
3	Greek (el) Μαύρη Μόρα		11
4	Arabic (ar) عفريت الليل		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Night hag" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Persian (fa) بختک		2
2	Arabic (ar) عفريت الليل		0
3	Greek (el) Μαύρη Μόρα		0
4	English (en) Night hag		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Night hag" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Persian (fa) بختک		51
2	English (en) Night hag		22
3	Arabic (ar) عفريت الليل		2
4	Greek (el) Μαύρη Μόρα		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عفريت الليل
el	Greek Μαύρη Μόρα
en	English Night hag
fa	Persian بختک

Best Rank

English: #41646 01.2020

Global: #54578 12.2023

Best Rank

English: #13777 11.2023

Global: #29170 11.2023

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