Succubus
For other uses, see
Succubus (disambiguation).
A bracket carved as a winged succubus on the outside of an
English inn, suggesting that a
brothel could have been found inside.
In
Western medieval legend, a
succubus (plural
succubi) or
succuba (plural
succubae) is a
demon who takes the form of a beautiful woman to seduce men (especially
monks)[
citation needed] in
dreams to have
sexual intercourse. They draw energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or
death of the victim. From
mythology and
fantasy,
Lilith and the
Lilin (
Jewish) and
Lilitu (
Sumerian) are, in
redactive Christian fables (folktales not part of official Christian theology), considered succubi.
According to the
Malleus Maleficarum, or "Witches' Hammer", published against the recomendation of the Catholic Church in 1487 and officialy banned in 1490, succubi would collect semen from the men they slept with, which
incubi would then use to impregnate women thus explaining how demons could apparently sire children in spite of the traditional belief that demons were incapable of reproduction through generative or gestative means. Children so begotten were supposed to be more susceptible to the influence of demons.
From the
16th century, the carving of a succubus on the outside of an
inn indicated that the establishment also operated as a
brothel.
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