

In the 17th century, friar Ludovico Sinistrati, who wrote a book about demons, claimed that he once tried to exorcise an incubus. He reasoned that such a psychic drainage could occur if a frustrated young person encouraged the attentions of an evil entity by longing thoughtsĪnd concentrated willpower. Father Montague Summers, a well known witch and werewolf hunter of his time, believed that the incubi might be composed of ectoplasm, the same substance the spirits of the dead draw their Were believed to birth witches and mutations, also. Such offspring from both Succubi and Incubi were called "Cambion's" which were half-demon, half-human. Many priests believed that the sole purpose of the succubi was to have demon offspring.

Being attacked by an incubus was also a convenient excuse for unmarried women whoīecame pregnant. Saying that an incubus took their looks and attacked the poor befuddled women.

Some men when blamed of having attacked women, defended themselves They fashioned temporary bodies out of water, vapor, or gases, and had no actual physical bodies, but were able to create illusions and could easily inhabit recently dead bodies for their lustful purposes. The Incubus often seduced unsuspecting women by shapeshifting as people they often knew or felt they could trust instantly, such as husbands or lovers. In latin, Incubus comes from the word incubare, meaning "to lie upon" and succubus comes from the word succubare, meaning

Though more popularized by churches in the middle ages, some mythological stories were found where male and female demons or gods shapeshifted into humans to steal the soles or fluids of other humans. Another legend states that these demons were fallen angels. Transport such spent semen for their own evil purposes. In the middle ages, theologians warned against masterbation, for waiting demons stood ready to In Jewish lore, Lilith is a female spirit of the night who, like a succubus seduces men while they are sleeping, causing them to emit semen which she takes to breed children of her own she also strangles human infants during or after their birth. The three angels only stopped harassing her when she swore that, whenever she saw the names and images of these angels in an amulet worn by or near to a child, she would not harm the child. She takes her revenge by injuring or killing But Lilith preferred this punishment to living with Adam. These angels found her in her cave and threatened that, unless she went back to Adam, she would lose a hundred of her demonic children daily by death. God then sent three angels named Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangolef to bring herīack to Adam. Adam complained to God about Lilith's departure. If she were real, the story goes that when she demanded equality with Adam and he refused, she retired to a cave where she consorted with demons and gave birth to demonic children. Many modern occultists believe that in the lustful human imagination, when excited by powerful erotic dreamsĪnd fantasies, ejaculates an etheral sperm that provides the seed for succubi and incubi. In such interpretation, these demons were created from Adam's semen. If Lilith were but the creation from Adam's mind, then his intercourse with her would be masterbation. Lilith was often said to be Adam's first wife, or fantasyįantasy wife created to help relieve his loneliness before the creation of Eve. Both of these demons are said to have been born as a result of Adam's (from the Bible) sexual intercourse with Lilith. According to ancient tradition, there are two main types of demons that lust for humans sexually: The Incubi which assault women, and the succubi, which seduce men. The incubus and the succubus are the inventions of early Christian theologians based on older lore.
