It was inevitable that this facility of intercourse should encourage belief in the Incubi and Succubi who play so large a part in mediæval sorcery, for such a belief has belonged to superstition in all ages.
The rites ended with indiscriminate intercourse, obliging demons serving as incubi or succubi as required.
Sprenger, as already stated, tells us that the attraction of intercourse with incubi and succubi was a principal cause of luring souls to ruin.
The Egyptians drew a distinction and admitted of Incubi but not of Succubi.
During the witchcraft period familiarity of this nature with Incubior Succubi was punished with death.
During this period many nuns and married women confessed to having been visited by Incubi of whose visits no spiritual efforts could rid them.
When kingdoms fought each warring Earl, The incubi cursed each lost soul; When vandals broke the idols' necks, Giant battle-axes smote each dell.
Giant battles have been fought in hell, Principalities rot in dust, The tombs of kings speak of the past When Incubi reigned with a rod.
Each vaulted soul and spiral thought, Swirl in the throes of waters cold; Where rivers with the venom crawls, Croak bat-faced incubi till hoarse.
Not unfrequently the subject of the disease perished at the stake for the alleged crime of having sexual intercourse withincubi or succubi, according to sex.
Imps, male and female, called incubi and succubi respectively, were supposed to be the active agents in producing the affection.
The innumerable phallic deities, the incubi and succubae, are monotonous as the waves of the ocean, which might fairly typify the vast, restless, and stormy expanse of sexual nature to which they belong.
Moreover Benedict, in his great work on canonization, not only admits the common opinion as to incubiand succubi, but he does not deny that in some way such unions may result in offspring.
Tell me," Durtal asked Des Hermies, "do you know whether a woman who receives visits from the incubi necessarily has a cold body?
Del Rio and Bodin, for instance, consider the incubi as masculine demons which couple with women and the succubi as demons who consummate the carnal act with men.
According to their theories the incubi take the semen lost by men in dream and make use of it.
The existence of succubi and incubi is certified by Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas, Saint Bonaventure, Denys le Chartreux, Pope Innocent VIII, and how many others!
In those intellectual days people believed in what were called the Incubi and the Succubi.
The question of the real existence of incubi and succubi, whom the Romans identified with the fauns, was gravely discussed by the fathers of the church; and in 1418 Innocent VIII.
An idea may be formed of incubi by the explanation of the great Delrio, of Boguets, and other writers learned in sorcery; but they fail in their account of succubi.
Thus is the existence of incubi and succubi demonstrated.
The following case is related by that celebrated Physician: "Historiam Incubi magis ad epilepticos, quam paralyticos affectus referendi, subjungam: Puella xviii.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incubi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
