![]() ![]() At length, when the furious pirrie and rage of winds still increased, in such wise that all those within the ship looked for present death, there was a woman underneath the hatches called unto them above, and willed them to throw her into the sea, that all the residue, by God's grace, might yet be saved and thereupon told them how she had been haunted a long time with a spirit dailie coming into hir in man's likenesse. "In the year 1480 it chanced as a Scottish ship departed out of the Forth towards Flanders, there arose a wonderful great tempest of wind and weather, so outrageous, that the master of the ship, with other the mariners, wondered not a little what the matter meant, to see such weather at that time of the year, for it was about the middle of summer. One of these, concerning an incubus, is quoted in the quaint language Holinshed used: The Description of Scotlande of Hector Boethius as translated in the first volume of Holinshed's Chronicles (1577), has three or four notable examples of these demons, which are corroborated by Jerome Cardan. Such churchmen as Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) discussed the demons. During the witchcraft scare of the late medieval period these demons, when associated with an individual witch or sorcerer, were known as familiars.īelief in incubi and succubi goes back to ancient times but was incorporated into Christian belief in the medieval period. The demons were generally believed to appear most frequently during sleep The male demon said to have intercourse with women is called the incubus and the female demon who seduces men the succubus. ![]() The concept may have arisen from the idea of the commerce of gods with people, which was rife in pagan times. A demon spirit that has sexual intercourse with mortals. ![]()
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