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Incubus

Incubus
Incubus, coloured aquatint (1870)

An incubus is a mythical male demon that is said to seduce women or rape them while they sleep. The purpose of this act is to impregnate the victim who will give birth to a cambion.

The incubus is not capable of providing live sperm, so sperm is acquired from a human male via a succubus (the female version of an incubus).

Some sources make addition claims, including:

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Footnotes
1. Russel, Jeffrey Burton (1972), Witchcraft in The Middle Ages, pp. 239, 235 Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, ISBN 0-8014-0697-8
2. Stephens, Walter (2002), Demon Lovers, p. 23, The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-266-77261-6