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confused with the old hag syndrome due to some experiences while under
the influence of sleep paralysis are of sexual nature. I have had many
reports of sexual advances while experiencing sleep paralysis. Please
remember some believe that sleep paralysis is used as a doorway, an
opening of
somekind
to let in the visitors that are often felt. That is why there is some
confusion as to normal sleep paralysis and then a more supernatural
sleep paralysis. Could supernatural beings be using the state of sleep
paralysis to enter our
realm?
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into consideration, all sides and see what we end up with.
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An incubus (plural
incubi) is a
demon in male form supposed to lie upon sleepers, especially women, in order to have
sexual intercourse with them, according to a number of mythological and legendary traditions. Its female counterpart is the
succubus. An incubus may pursue sexual relations with a woman in order to father a child, as in the legend of
Merlin.
[1] Some sources indicate that it may be identified by its unnaturally cold
penis.
[2]
Religious tradition holds that repeated intercourse with an incubus or
succubus may result in the deterioration of health, or even death.
[3]Medieval
legend claims that demons, both male and female, sexually prey on human
beings. They generally prey upon the victim when they are sleeping,
though it has been reported that females have been attacked while fully
lucid.
The incubus is sometimes confused with the legendary "
Old Hag"
syndrome. The Old Hag episode, however, is usually restricted to an
unpleasant feeling of great pressure on the chest and not a ghostly
sexual encounter.
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1 Origins1.1 Ancient and religious descriptions1.2 Regional variations2 See also3 Notes//
[
edit] Origins
A
number of secular explanations have been offered for the origin of the
incubus legends. They involve the medieval preoccupation with
sin, especially sexual sins of women. Victims may have been experiencing waking dreams or
sleep paralysis. Also, nocturnal arousal,
orgasm or
nocturnal emission could be explained by the idea of creatures causing an otherwise guilt-producing and self-conscious behavior.
[4] Alternately, the influence of
incubi could also have been invoked to explain otherwise "unexplainable" pregnancies out of wedlock.
Purported victims of
incubi could have been the victims of sexual assault by a real person. Rapists may have attributed the
rapes
of sleeping women to demons in order to escape punishment. A friend or
relative may have assaulted the victim in her sleep. The victims and,
in some cases the clergy,
[5]
may have found it easier to explain the attack as supernatural rather
than confront the idea that the attack came from someone in a position
of trust.
[
edit] Ancient and religious descriptions
One of the earliest mentions of an incubus comes from Mesopotamia on the Sumerian kings' list, ca. 2400, where the hero
Gilgamesh's father is listed as
Lilu (Lila).
[6] It is said that
Lilu disturbs and seduces women in their sleep, while
Lilitu, a female demon, appears to men in their erotic dreams.
[7] Two other corresponding demons appear as well:
Ardat lili, who visits men by night and begets ghostly children from them, and
Irdu lili, who is known as a male counterpart to
Ardat lili
and visits women by night and begets from them. These demons were
originally storm demons, but they eventually became regarded as night
demons due to mistaken etymology.
[8] Also considered to be vampires which is another form of a demon that is said to drink blood from its victims.
Incubi and succubi were said by some not to be different sexes, but the same demons able to change their sex.
[9]
A succubus would be able to sleep with a man and collect his sperm, and
then transform into an incubus and use that seed on women. Their
offspring were thought to be supernatural in many cases, even if the
actual genetic material originally came from humans.
[4]Though many tales claim that the incubus is
bisexual,
[10] others indicate that it is strictly
heterosexual and finds attacking a male victim either unpleasant or detrimental.
[11] There are also numerous stories involving the attempted
exorcism of
incubi or succubi who have taken refuge in, respectively, the bodies of men or women.
Incubi are sometimes said to be able to conceive children. The half-human offspring of such a union is sometimes referred to as a
cambion. The most famous legend of such a case includes that of
Merlin, the famous wizard from
Arthurian legend.
[5]According to the
Malleus Maleficarum, exorcism is one of the five ways to overcome the attacks of
Incubi, the others being
Sacramental Confession, the
Sign of the Cross (or recital of the
Angelic Salutation), moving the afflicted to another location, and by
excommunication of the attacking entity, "which is perhaps the same as exorcism."
[12] On the other hand, the
Franciscan friar Ludovico Maria Sinistrari stated that
incubi
"do not obey exorcists, have no dread of exorcisms, show no reverence
for holy things, at the approach of which they are not in the least
overawed."
[5][
edit] Regional variations
There are a number of variations on the incubus theme around the world. The
alp of
Teutonic or
German folklore is one of the better known. In
Zanzibar,
Popo Bawa primarily attacks men and generally behind closed doors.
[13] El Trauco, according to the traditional mythology of the
Chiloé Province of Chile, is a hideous deformed dwarf who lulls nubile young women and seduces them. El
Trauco is said to be responsible for unwanted pregnancies, especially in unmarried women.
[14] Perhaps another variation of this conception is
el "
Tintín"
in Ecuador, a dwarf who is fond of abundant haired women and seduces
them at night by playing the guitar outside their windows; a myth that
researchers believe was created during the Colonial period of time to
explain pregnancies in women who never left their houses without a
chaperone, very likely covering incest or sexual abuse by one of the family's friends
[15]. In
Hungary, a
lidérc can be a Satanic lover that flies at night and appears as a fiery light (an
ignis fatuus or
will o' the wisp) or, in its more benign form as a featherless chicken.
[16]In
Brazil and the rain forests of the
Amazon Basin, the
Boto is a combination of
siren and incubus, a very charming and beautiful man who seduces young women and takes them into the river.
[17] It is said to be responsible for disappearances and unwanted pregnancies,
[18] and it can never be seen by daylight, because it metamorphoses into that kind of
river dolphin during those hours. According to legend the
boto always wears a hat to disguise the breathing hole at the top of its head.
[19]The Southern African incubus demon is the
Tikoloshe.
Chaste women place their beds upon bricks to deter the rather short
fellows from attaining their sleeping forms. They also share the hole
in the head detail and water dwelling habits of the
Boto 
