361 CE), "The devil, unhappy wight, one night even took upon him the shape of a woman and imitated all her acts simply to beguile Anthony." St. Anthony was said to have been sorely tempted by female demons. Since women were regarded as far more licentious than men, it was supposed that incubi outnumbered succubi by nine to one. As the witch trials gained in fervor, the inquisitors came to expect that a witch would have had relations with an incubus, and each witch was tortured until she confessed to that misdeed. The Malleus Maleficarum (1486) made three classifications: (i) those who submit voluntarily (to incubi) as witches (ii) those brought against their will by witches to sleep with incubi (iii) those assaulted against their will. But later, toward the end of the fifteenth century, the authorities seemed to realize that attacks should not be made to sound attractive and, after torture, descriptions began to include talk the incubi possessing large, rough penises that emitted ice-cold semen. Under threat of torture, she admitted that she had "long been indecently intimate with an incubus." In most of the earlier accounts of copulation between incubi and women, or succubi and men, there was mention of the intense pleasure brought about by this union. Boring a hole in the wall, she saw the nun making passionate love with a "comely youth." After all the other nuns had been allowed to witness the scene, the miscreant was approached. Another nun heard low voices and the sounds of lovemaking through the thin partition between their rooms. Ludovico Maria Sinistrari, in Daemonialitate et Incubis et Succubis (1754), told of a nun who would regularly disappear into her cell after dinner. Nuns seemed especially susceptible to incubi attack. The convent accepted the bishop's explanation. The bishop, however, pointed out that it was obviously an incubus in his form who had tried to seduce her. A medieval nun said that she had been attacked by her bishop, Bishop Silvanus. Thomas Aquinas said, in his Summa Theologiae (1266-73), "If sometimes children are born from intercourse with demons, this is not because of the semen emitted by them, or from the bodies they have assumed, but through the semen taken from some man for this purpose, seeing that the same demon who acts as a succubus for a man becomes an incubus for a woman." However, there were cases that seemed to throw some doubt on the whole theory of demon visitation. In that way, it could impregnate a woman- first it would appear as a succubus and take semen from a man, and then it would reappear as an incubus and deposit it in a female. It was thought that the same demon could appear as a male or a female. Many times the demons would assume human shape. The initial idea of these two demons may have first arisen from the myths of ancient gods and goddesses seducing humans, but it was the sexually titillated inquisitors at the witch trials during the persecutions that made it seem as if such creatures were almost commonplace. In the Middle Ages the concept was widely discussed.
The Latin for "nightmare" is incubo, the literal meaning of which is "to lie upon." (From this we get the modern English word "incubator.") The incubus and succubus were related to nightmares in fact, a visit from one of the creatures was regarded as a nightmare. It was believed that malformed children, and even twins, were the result of a union between a woman and an incubus. Those so attacked would wake to feel a heavy weight on their chest, which would turn out to be the incubus or succubus demon. Incubus and Succubus (religion, spiritualism, and occult)įemale (succubus) and male (incubus) demon lovers that, in the Middle Ages, were believed to visit innocent people in the night to seduce them. Incubus hovering over the body of a sleeping woman, c.
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