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
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Irish myth Cross
- Welsh ibid.
- Finnish Aarne FFC XXXIII 44 No. 59
- Germanic De la Saussaye 293f.
- Estonian Aarne FFC XXV 126 No. 59
- Lithuanian Balys 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
Within the index
Filed under Dream demons.
2 finer motifs beneath it
Filed beside it
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
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