An old superstition says that it’s dangerous to wake someone who is sleepwalking. This fear is due to a belief that the soul leaves the body during sleep. This explained people’s dreams in which they traveled freely anywhere around the world. If you woke a sleepwalker, the soul would be absent, and the person would die.
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