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THE INCUBUSINCUBUS
In Western medieval legend, an incubus (plural incubi) is a demon in male form supposed to lie upon sleepers, especially women, in order to have sexual intercourse with them. They are also believed to do this in order to spawn other incubi. The incubus drains energy from the woman it performs sexual intercourse upon in order to sustain itself. In most cases it either kills the victim or leaves the victim in very weak or fragile condition. A female version was called a succubus.
There are a number of variations on the theme around the world. In Zanzibar, Popo Bawa primarily attacks men and only in their own beds. El 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. El Trauco is sometimes invoked to explain sudden or unwanted pregnancies, especially in unmarried women. In Hungary, a Liderc can be a Satanic lover that flies at night and appears as a fiery light, a will o' the wisp, or as a bird of fire.
A number of mundane explanations have been offered for the origin of the Inkson legends. They involve the Medieval preoccupation with sin, especially sexual sins of women. Victims may have been experiencing waking dreams or sleep paralysis. Also, nocturnal arousal, orgasm or nocturnal emission could be explained by the idea of creatures causing an otherwise guilt-producing and self-conscious behavior.
Purported victims of Incubi could have been the victims of sexual assault by a real person. Rapists may have attributed the rapes of sleeping women to demons in order to escape punishment. A friend or relative may have assaulted the victim in their sleep. The victims may have found it easier to explain the attack as supernatural rather than confront the idea that the attack came from someone they trusted.
In legend, incubi were sometimes said to conceive children. The half-human offspring of such a union is a Cambion. The most famous legend of such a case includes that of Merlin, the famous wizard from Arthurian legend.
Incubi and succubi were said by some not to be different genders but the same demons able to change their sex. 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. Their offspring were thought to be supernatural in many cases, even if the actual genetic material originally came from humans.
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