Mara from European Superstition

The Incubus is a demon, an evil spirit from Hell. It has the ability to take the shape of a man in order to have sex with a woman.

Some victims actually die after having intercourse with the Incubus, so intense is the demonic virility. Its physical endowments is such that the body is usually torn severely by the gigantic size of its assumed manhood. Death is not uncommon.

Women who survived having sex with the Incubus are mesmerized to the point that they fall under its spell and they become possessed by it. Obsessed with sensuality, the satanic sexual spell makes slaves out of them. Slaves to the devil because the Incubus can give them what no mortal man can.

During the dark ages of Western civilization, many women who confessed to being witches were burnt at the stake. Many of them admitted to having sex with the Incubus. Of course, these confessions were normally extracted under severe torture. But with so may women actually naming the sex beast, the Incubus, surely this spirit is no mere myth or legend.

Saint Thomas Aquinas firmly believed that the Incubus was an agent from Hell, sent by the devil to lead womankind astray with satanic sex.

Holinshed's Chronicles of 1480 reported the account of a Scottish ship overtaken by a violent freak storm. A woman passenger burst onto the deck shrieking hysterically to the priest on board. She confessed to him that she was an adultress and that she was having an affair. Everyone was shocked to hear the name of her lover - the Incubus. The woman felt so guilty and ashamed of her unholy secret, she thought that the storm was sent by the devil to claim her soul. She then asked to be cast overboard in order to spare the lives of the rest of the passengers and the crew.

However, instead of throwing her overboard, the priest managed to exorcise the demon. In the exact words of Holinshed's Chronicle, the demon,

When the possessed woman was exorcised, the storm subsided and the ship was sailing in smooth waters once again.

The Incubus has been known to impregnate certain women as well, so that their hellspawn might walk the earth and perform specially assigned tasks. Many renowned poeple such as Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great and Plato are said to have descended from union with the Incubus. No common man could have fathered leaders of such stature and distinction. They were the very sons of the devil's agent - the Incubus.