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An incubus may pursue sexual relations with a woman to father a child, as in the legend of Merlin, [9] which was the first popular account of demonic parentage in Western Christian literature. [10] In the Malleus Maleficarum, exorcism is presented as one of the five ways to overcome the attacks of incubi.
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In 1888, W. B. Yeats noted that the gancanagh was not found in dictionaries and the fairy was not well-known in Connacht. [1]In a story collected in The Dublin and London Magazine in 1825, ganconer is defined as "a name given to the fairies, alias the 'good people,' in the North of Ireland."
In European mythology and literature, a cambion (/ ˈ k æ m b i ən /) is the offspring produced from a human–demon sexual union, typically involving an incubus or a succubus. In the word's earliest known uses, it was interchangeable with changeling .
This is a list of demons that appear in religion, theology, demonology, mythology, and folklore. It is not a list of names of demons, although some are listed by more than one name. It is not a list of names of demons, although some are listed by more than one name.
St. Augustine in a 6th-century portrait. In the Gaulish language, Dusios [1] was a divine being [2] among the continental Celts [3] who was identified with the god Pan of ancient Greek religion and with the gods Faunus, Inuus, Silvanus, and Incubus of ancient Roman religion.
Dimitrie Cantemir, writing about the myth concerning it in Descriptio Moldaviae (1714–1716), [a] stated that the "zburator" meant "flyer" (Latin: volatilis), and according to the beliefs of the Moldavan it was "a ghost, a young, handsome man who comes in the middle of the night at women, especially recently married ones and does indecent things with them, although he cannot be seen by other ...
The Legend of San Pietro al Monte or the Legend of the White Boar of Civate wants to explain the foundation of the church of the same name as an act of devotion of the Lombard King Desiderius. [108] Gammazita is a young girl, the protagonist of a Catania legend linked to the history of the Angevins of Sicily. Its name was also given to a site ...