Incubus. A male demon who comes in sleep and has sexual intercourse with a woman.
Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Night-spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F471.2
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Scholars’ trail — 10references
The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.
- Irish mythCross
- Welshibid.
- FinnishAarne FFC XXXIII 44 No. 59
- GermanicDe la Saussaye 293f.
- EstonianAarne FFC XXV 126 No. 59
- LithuanianBalys Index No. 3682
- S. Am. Indian (Araucanian)Alexander Lat. Am. 328
- Africa (Fang)Einstein 175.
- general *Kittredge Witchcraft 116, 444ff. nn. 103–155 passim
- general *Loomis White Magic 77