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A succubus (pl.: succubi) is a female demon or supernatural entity in folklores who appears in dreams to seduce men, mostly through sexual activity. According to some folklore, a succubus needs male semen to survive; repeated sexual activity with a succubus will result in a bond being formed between the succubus and the person; and a succubus ...
Modern writers have sometimes used the term cambion for Merlin, who in Arthurian legend is the son of a mortal woman and an incubus. [8]The Dark Horse Comics character Hellboy is a cambion, being the offspring of the demon Azzael and a human woman, Sarah Hughes.
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, a succubus appears as a monster in Level 2 at the Maze of Tribulations; her attacks include Charm Person, which causes the chaos status ailment on male party members. Warrior Kings (RTS), succubus is a unit available to Pagan players through the Henge (which are constructed by the High Priestess). Succubi are ...
The term strzyga could also sometimes mean a vampire or upiór. [3] [4] [5] After the 18th century, there was a distinction between strzyga and upiór; the first one was more connected to witchcraft, while the latter was more of a flying, vampiric creature. [6] [2]
The baobhan sith (literally "fairy witch" or "fairy hag" in Scottish Gaelic) is a female fairy in the folklore of the Scottish Highlands, though they also share certain characteristics in common with the succubus. [1] They appear as beautiful women who seduce their victims before attacking them and killing them. [1]
The word mare comes (through Middle English mare) from the Old English feminine noun mære (which had numerous variant forms, including mare, mere, and mær). [2] Likewise are the forms in Old Norse/Icelandic mara [3] as well as the Old High German mara [5] (glossed in Latin as "incuba " [6]), [7] while the Middle High German forms are mar, mare, [8] [10]
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The similarity between the European changeling and the Igbo ogbanje is so marked that Igbos themselves often translate the word into English as "changeling". [45] The abiku was a rough analogue of the ogbanje among the related Yoruba peoples to the west of Igboland. [citation needed]