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Definition of Incubi
1. incubus [n] - See also: incubus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incubi
Literary usage of Incubi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1888)
"It was inevitable that this facility of intercourse should encourage belief in
the incubi and Succubi who play so large a part in ..."
2. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"HAVE there ever been incubi and suc- cubi ? Our learned jurisconsults and de-
... An idea may be formed of incubi by the explanation of the great Delrio, ..."
3. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"... Phenomena of the World—Pervading Spirits as good and evil Demons affecting
man—Spirits manifest in Dreams and Visions : Nightmares ; incubi and Succubi; ..."
4. The Egyptian Sketch Book by Charles Godfrey Leland (1874)
"Spirit Loves and incubi still common in Egypt. — Kornmann and other Learned Men
on the Subject. — Boethius of the Bishop and the Elf. — Fanny ..."
5. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1887)
"It was inevitable that this facility of intercourse should encourage belief in
the incubi and Succubi wiio play so large a part in medieval sorcery, ..."
6. A historical account of the belief in witchcraft in Scotland by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (1884)
"Bishop Cameron—Earl of Mar—The incubi and Succubi— A Young Man Bewitched—The
Monster and the Gentlewoman—The Apparition and James IV. ..."
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