nightmare vs woe

nightmare

noun
  • Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure. 

  • A very bad or frightening dream. 

  • A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; Sleep paralysis. 

verb
  • To have a nightmare. 

woe

noun
  • Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness. 

  • A curse; a malediction. 

  • Calamity, trouble. 

How often have the words nightmare and woe occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )