According to the Quillet dictionary, incubates it is " a male demon which is supposed to take a body to misuse a woman deadened or transported during the Sabbath ". Its during female is the Succube.
D' a very strong sexual connotation, the accounts of attacks of incubate are tinted of one ambivalence with regard to the feelings of the victim: sometimes pleasant, they can be transformed into Cauchemar…

Latin origin

  • According to Bloch and Wartburg, the word incubates appears about 1372. It derives from the Latin traditional Inc , “on”, and cubare , “to sleep”, therefore “which sleeps on”. However Saint-Augustin (354-430) indicated already incubates it in the city of God :
Beaucoup ensures to have tested or to have intended to say by those which had tried out it, that the Sylvain S and the fauna S (those which the vulgar one calls incubate) often presented to women and consumed the union with them; also to want to deny it appears impudence .

  • the term incubates in the beginning is used especially by the ecclesiastical world. A detailed description is present in the Malleus Maleficarum, treated enquiry in 1486:

By similar demons, the sex acts of the most ashamed impurity are made, not for the pleasure but for the infection of the body and the heart of those of which they are done incubate and succubes. Then at the end of a similar act, perfect design and generation can be realized by women: they can at the place necessary of the belly woman approach it the human seed of the prepared matter for it. Just like they can collect seeds of other things for other effects. In such generations, which one allots to the demon, it is only the local movement and not the generation itself, whose principle is not the power of the demon or the body by him assumed, but the power of that of which is the seed. From where generated not demon but of a man is wire.
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a demon succube takes the seed of a man scélérat, a properly deputy demon close to this man and who will not want to do incubates it of a witch. It gives this seed to another demon detached close to a woman, a witch; and this one under a constellation which is favorable for him to produce somebody or some capable of evil spells, is done incubates it of a witch.
This problem of the generation resulting from the union of one incubates and of a woman is however not resulting from Heinrich Kramer (alias Henri Institoris) and Jacques Sprenger, the authors of Malleus, since Saint Thomas d' Aquin (1225-1274) already spoke about it in Summa Theologica .

  • Of the theological considerations, the term incubates passed in the medical field gradually, to indicate the nightmare:

Johann Weyer (1515-1588) devotes a chapter to the illusion of incubates:
All these accidens proceeds of heat diminuee: & are made at the time that the animal spirits which live the brain inside, are so much offusquez by the vapors, which go up & proceed of the phlegme & the melancholie, that them virtue is oppressee
It quote the case of a fourteen year old nun which laid down every night with Satan, and thus comment on (just like Henri Corneille Clutched) its night overflows: the women are melancholic persons, who think of doing what they do not make .
Of the same Martín Antonio Delrío (1551-1608) while speaking about incubate, succubes and demons:
oppression however, and quasi suffocation always does not come on behalf of these demons, as well often of a species of disease melancholic person as the Flemings call Mare, the Coquemare French and the Ephialtes Greeks, when the patient has opinion of a heavy burden on the chest, or of a Demon which wants to make force with its pudicity .
Or Scipion Dupleix (1569-1661) speaks indistinctly about the éphialtès of the Greeks and of incubates Latin when he says:
the common opinion is that proceeded of the voracity & crudeness of the meats that the overloaded estomach cannot digest: from where vapors exhale themselves which estoupant the conduits of breathing & the voice work us so that it seems that one suffocates us by overrate some large burden
  • many the loves between Zeus and the mortals in Greek mythology
  • the myth of Eros and Psyché
It is now well established that everywhere in the world, the demons preceded the appearance of the religions monotheists. The demons are in the beginning a power animist and will be enracineront later in the belief in died and the ghosts. A demon can become a god and conversely. The characteristic of incubates is that the sexual union is done during the sleep of the woman. But even this characteristic is not specifically Christian since that there existed already among Greeks the concept of sleep of the Temple or incubatio which consisted of the union of God and one (E) mortal (it), in particular within the framework of the treatment of sterility.

The descent of the union of one incubates with a mortal is variable according to the times and the traditions.
Au Moyen-âge, one regarded the descent as being human: the sperm collected by a demon succube was transmitted to a demon incubates detached near a woman . It was about a kind of perfect generation by the women. The sources are the Malleus Maleficarum, treated Inquisition published in 1486.
Ernest Jones, by quoting several authors, reduces from such unions: Robert, father of William the Conqueror, Luther, Merlin (resulting from one Incubates and a nun, girl of Charlemagne), César, Alexandre the Large one, Plato, Scipion the African (...) the race of Huns and all the island of Cyprus .

The evocation of Eros according to Julius Evola

Before approaching the notion of the incubat and succubat according to Julius Evola, let us recall some notions necessary for its good comprehension within the thought of the author.

There exist two ways of approaching the concept of Eros: profane Eros and sacrilized Eros. The first enracine in the biological one, common sexuality. The second appears in the order of the divine one. It is the same for the Aphrodite Uranie (vulgar love) and Aphrodite Pandémie (love in divine matter). Just as the monkey goes down from the man by involution, animal sexuality, even human, presents themselves as the fall and the regression of an impulse not belonging to the sphere of biological the . One of the functions of Eros is to fill the distance between the sphere of the mortal and the sphere of the divine one. That joined the Platonic ideas according to which Eros is powerful a demon, an intermediary between the nature of God and the nature of mortal . The mania of the love related to Eros and Aphrodite can take two forms: one drifting of human disease, the other of divine exaltation .

The concept of incubat and succubat is presented by Evola within the framework of the process of sacralizations and evocations of the Eros crowned. The paradigm of the processes of sacralization is represented by the marriage like mystery alias the hiérogamies and the crowned prostitution. The incubat and the succubat represent for him the dark prolongations of these processes. They can be more or less conscious and can have pathological correspondents. The subtle developments of the Eros are under the control surface of the kingdom of the night, of the darkness, because it is of night that the changes of state of consciousness take place. These phenomena, according to the author, were known as of the time of the sumériens. He also quotes to support his thesis:

  • Stanislas de Guaita according to which incubates it and the succube are two spectral forms of a convertible hermaphrodism . Evola explains why it is about the union of two trend forms of the two principles masculine and female.
  • Paracelse whose passage in the treaty of the invisible diseases would refer to the capacity évocatoire imagination allowing the contact with the suprasensible powers of the sex .
Among the other processes of sacralization, as information, Evola evokes, within the framework of the profane Eros, the medieval chivalrous love, but also, within the framework of the initiatory experiments, the Fidèles of Love .

From the point of view of the pleasure, Evola quotes that which some can test in dream, whenever there is no ejaculation. This pleasure brought back by some, with a character extatique and omni-invading that related to the physical act . This pleasure is not related to the usual physiological conditionalities .

Culture, Art and Literature

On Internet, one names sometimes the children (démoniaques) born from this connection changed Kilcrops , Rocots or “children”; those, of thin constitution, howl with the simple touch and laugh diaboliquement with occurred at least misfortune.

Incubate and the Succube S are picturesque characters whom one with pleasure crosses in certain plays, such as Nethack.

The film of 1965, Incubus , the second and last Feature-length film realized in Esperanto, puts in scene one incubates and of the succubes.

Incubus is also the name of a group of music Rock in addition to being the title of a song of the group Marillion available on the album Fugazi.

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