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incubus

An incubus is a demon who takes on the form of a human male to have sex with a human female. Incubi, being mythological creatures, don't have testicles and don't make sperm, but they do collect human sperm from succubi and deposit it in human females for some diabolical reason.

See also Satan and sleep paralysis.

further reading

books and articles

Carus, Paul. The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil (Gramercy, 1996) reproduction of the original 1900 edition.

de Givry, Grillot. Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy, trans. J. Locke (New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1971), an unabridged republication of the Houghton Mifflin edition of 1931.

Hicks, Robert D. In Pursuit of Satan : the Police and the Occult (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1991).

Hill, Frances. A Delusion of Satan - The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials (New York: Doubleday, 1995).

Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark, ch. 7 "The Demon-Haunted World," (New York: Random House, 1995).

Smith, Homer W. Man and His Gods, ch. vi "The Rise and Fall of His Satanic Majesty's Empire" (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1952).


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