In Hungary, a lidérc can be a Satanic lover that flies at night and appears as a fiery light (an ignis fatuus or will o' the wisp) or, in its more benign form as a featherless chicken.
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Perhaps another variation of this conception is the "Tintín" in Ecuador, a dwarf who is fond of abundant haired women and seduces them at night by playing the guitar outside their windows a myth that researchers believe was created during the Colonial period of time to explain pregnancies in women who never left their houses without a chaperone, very likely covering incest or sexual abuse by one of the family's friends. The Trauco is said to be responsible for unwanted pregnancies, especially in unmarried women. "The Trauco", according to the traditional mythology of the Chiloé Province of Chile, is a hideous deformed dwarf who lulls nubile young women and seduces them. In Zanzibar, Popo Bawa primarily attacks men and generally behind closed doors. The alp of Teutonic or German folklore is one of the better known.
There are a number of variations on the incubus theme around the world. The most famous legend of such a case includes that of Merlin, the famous wizard from Arthurian legend.Īccording to the Malleus Maleficarum, exorcism is one of the five ways to overcome the attacks of incubi, the others being Sacramental Confession, the Sign of the Cross (or recital of the Angelic Salutation), moving the afflicted to another location, and by excommunication of the attacking entity, "which is perhaps the same as exorcism." On the other hand, the Franciscan friar Ludovico Maria Sinistrari stated that incubi "do not obey exorcists, have no dread of exorcisms, show no reverence for holy things, at the approach of which they are not in the least overawed. The half-human offspring of such a union is sometimes referred to as a cambion. Incubi are sometimes said to be able to conceive children. There are also numerous stories involving the attempted exorcism of incubi or succubi who have taken refuge in, respectively, the bodies of men or women. Though many tales claim that the incubus is bisexual, others indicate that it is strictly heterosexual and finds attacking a male victim either unpleasant or detrimental. Even though sperm and egg came from humans originally, the spirits offspring were often thought of as supernatural. A succubus would be able to sleep with a man and collect his sperm, and then transform into an incubus and use that seed on women. 800 years later, Thomas Aquinas lent himself to the ongoing discussion, stating, "Still, if some are occasionally begotten from demons, it is not from the seed of such demons, nor from their assumed bodies, but from the seed of men, taken for the purpose as when the demon assumes first the form of a woman, and afterwards of a man just so they take the seed of other things for other generating purposes." It became generally accepted that incubi and succubi were the same demon, able to switch between male and female forms. Many have verified it by their own experience and trustworthy persons have corroborated the experience others told, that sylvans and fauns, commonly called incubi, have often made wicked assaults upon women." Questions about the reproductive capabilities of the demons continued. He stated, "There is also a very general rumor.
There were too many attacks by incubi to deny them. Augustine touched on the topic in De Civitate Dei ("The City of God"). These demons were originally storm demons, but they eventually became regarded as night demons due to mistaken etymology.ĭebate about the demons began early in the Christian tradition. Two other corresponding demons appear as well: Ardat lili, who visits men by night and begets ghostly children from them, and Irdu, who is known as a male counterpart to Ardat lili and visits women by night and begets from them.
It is said that Lilu disturbs and seduces women in their sleep, while Lilitu, a female demon, appears to men in their erotic dreams. One of the earliest mentions of an incubus comes from Mesopotamia on the Sumerian King List, c2400 BC, where the hero Gilgamesh's father is listed as Lilu. Religious tradition holds that repeated intercourse with an incubus or succubus may result in the deterioration of health, or even death An incubus may pursue sexual relations with a woman in order to father a child, as in the legend of Merlin. An incubus (nominal form constructed from the Latin verb, incubo, incubare, or "to lie upon") is a demon in male form who, according to a number of mythological and legendary traditions, lies upon sleepers, especially women, in order to have intercourse with them.
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