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An incubus (English plural: incubuses, Latin plural: incubi) is a male demon in human form in folklore that seeks to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women; the corresponding spirit in female form is called a succubus. Parallels exist in many cultures.
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 ...
In the Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology the cambion is again said to be the direct offspring of the incubus and the succubus, forgoing any need for human involvement. This same incarnation retained the absence of breath or a pulse until seven years of age, but was said to also have been incredibly heavy (even too heavy for a horse ...
De Daemonialitate et Incubis et Succubis is a comprehensive treatise divided into several sections, each exploring different aspects of demonology and the specific phenomena of incubi and succubi.
The Testament of Solomon is a pseudepigraphical work, purportedly written by King Solomon, in which the author mostly describes particular demons who he enslaved to help build the temple, the questions he put to them about their deeds and how they could be thwarted, and their answers, which provide a kind of self-help manual against demonic activity.
Merlin is said to have been born from the relationship of an incubus with a mortal (illumination from a 13th century French manuscript) Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 – c. 395) said that demons had children with women called cambions , which added to the children they had between them, contributed to increase the number of demons.
"Nachtmahr" ("Night-mare"), by Johann Heinrich Füssli (1802), depicts an Alp sitting on the sleeper's chest, with a mara staring through the background.An Alp (German:; plural Alpe or Alpen) is a supernatural being in German folklore.
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]