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An incubus (English plural: incubuses, Latin plural: incubi) is a male demon in human form in folklore that seeks to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women; the corresponding spirit in female form is called a succubus. Parallels exist in many cultures.
One common hallucination is the presence of an incubus. A neurological hypothesis is that in sleep paralysis the cerebellum , which usually coordinates body movement and provides information on body position, experiences a brief myoclonic spike in brain activity inducing a floating sensation.
Modern writers have sometimes used the term cambion for Merlin, who in Arthurian legend is the son of a mortal woman and an incubus. [8]The Dark Horse Comics character Hellboy is a cambion, being the offspring of the demon Azzael and a human woman, Sarah Hughes.
The word mare comes (through Middle English mare) from the Old English feminine noun mære (which had numerous variant forms, including mare, mere, and mær). [2] Likewise are the forms in Old Norse/Icelandic mara [3] as well as the Old High German mara [5] (glossed in Latin as "incuba " [6]), [7] while the Middle High German forms are mar, mare, [8] [10]
The Nightmare, by Henry Fuseli (1781) is thought to be one of the classic depictions of sleep paralysis perceived as a demonic visitation.. The night hag or old hag is the name given to a supernatural creature, commonly associated with the phenomenon of sleep paralysis.
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Incubus is a supernatural horror novel by American writer Ray Russell, first published by William Morrow and Company in 1976. Its plot follows a small California community that is plagued by a series of brutal rapes and murders that are discovered to be supernatural in origin.
St. Augustine in a 6th-century portrait. In the Gaulish language, Dusios [1] was a divine being [2] among the continental Celts [3] who was identified with the god Pan of ancient Greek religion and with the gods Faunus, Inuus, Silvanus, and Incubus of ancient Roman religion.