While the majority of women are forced into sex by the incubi, some of them submit willingly and even enjoy the act. Nuns are among the most vulnerable and could be molested in the confessional as well as in bed. Incubi are especially attracted to women with beautiful hair, young virgins, chaste widows, and all “devout” females. They described the appearances, behavior, and characteristics of incubi and remedies against them. The Incubus during the European Inquisition During the witch hunts, Demonologists wrote handbooks on witches, the Devil, and Demons. Augustine included among incubi the pagan demigods sylvans and fauns, who were exceptionally lascivious and often injured women in their lust, he said. Their offspring were giants, the Nephilim, who could not have been the progeny of human men and women. Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, and Tertullian, as well as the Jewish historian Josephus and some Platonist philosophers, the incubi were the SONS OF GOD, angels who fell from heaven because they copulated with women. The Incubus in the Early Christian ChurchĪccording to some of the fathers of the church, among them St. Thus, Demons value intercourse with humans. The hybrid human-Demonic children have a Demonic nature and rank high in the echelons of Demons, occupying positions of authority and rulership. According to the kabbalistic text the Zohar, these unions are continued by men who unknowingly cohabit with spirits in their sleep. The existence and activities of incubi are acknowledged in Jewish Demonology in relation to a Midrashic legend of Adam’s siring Demonic offspring. The Greeks referred to the phenomenon as ephialtes, or “the pouncer.” Another Greek term is pnigalion, or “suffocation.” Pliny called it “suppressions” or “nocturnal illusions.” The Incubus in Jewish Demonology Sometimes there is a sense of choking or suffocation. Incubus is from the Latin word incubare, which means “to lie upon.” Victims usually feel a heavy weight on top of them that paralyzes them. Incubus attacks are reported in modern Possession cases.
During the witch hysteria in Europe, incubi were believed to instruments of the Devil, tormenting people for the sole purpose of degrading their souls and perverting them to more vices. They can be conjured by witches, sorcerers, and shamans. In Hebrew mythology, the Incubus and his female counterpart, the Succubus, visit women and men in their sleep, lie and press heavily upon them, and seduce them. An Incubus is alewd male Demon who pursues women for sex.
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