Succubus
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A succubus (also succubus or Sukkuba , plural: succubes , from Latin: succumbere , 'lying down') is a feminine, particularly beautiful and lustful demon or devil who looks for a man in order to have sexual relations with him. It is the female counterpart to the male incubus .
Origin and description
The succubus is seductive and has a bewitching charm, and succubi appear like beautiful, kind, human-like beings. Despite their trustworthy and friendly appearance, succubes have two bat-like wings, a pointed tail and horns. According to Hexenhammer , a succubus steals the sleeping man's semen. The following order will therefore prevail: a succubus overtakes seeds from a man ; if the latter is specifically assigned to this man, that demon will bring that seed to the woman.
The oldest mention of demons of this kind comes from Mesopotamia , under the names Lilu and Lilutu or Ardat Lili and Irdu Lili, as demons that appear in sleep in the form of erotic dreams. This idea is also found in Jewish and Christian mythology. Eva wasn't the first. Man was created male and female, and the man's name was Adam and the woman's name was Lilith . There is only one brief mention of it in the Bible, but Jewish tradition has numerous traditions about Adam's first wife. She is described as a demonically beautiful creature who seduces men in their sleep as a succubus. As a jealous, avenging demon, she seeks to kill newborn babies. In Faust III he fell for the female devil Helena and was driven to murder out of jealousy . In the Jungian doctrine of archetypes , the succubus is the dark female aspect of the man that belongs to the complex of the anima conception.
Reception as a literary figure
- Honoré de Balzac : The succubus. A witch story
Movie
- Succubus - the devil in the body
- The Canadian television series Lost Girl : The main character is a succubus named Bo, who grew up among people and protects them.
- In the anime series The Testament of Sister New Devil and Rosario + Vampire , one of the main characters is a succubus.
- South Park : The chef is seduced by a succubus and is even about to marry her.
- Rotte no Omocha! : The main female character "Rotte" and the daughter of the main male character are succubes.
- Succubus is the international title of the German film Necronomicon - Dreamed Sins from 1967
literature
- Witch hammer
- Stanislas de Guaita . Le Temple de Satan , 1891
- Robbins, Rossell Hope. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology . Crown Publishers Inc., 1959. ISBN 0-600-01183-6 .
- Siegmund Hurwitz: Lilith. The First Eve. Historical and psychological aspects of the dark feminine. Daimon Verlag, Einsiedeln 1992, ISBN 3-85630-522-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Succubus, the ( Duden )