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Re: OT: Incubus = ... in English?

From:Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>
Date:Thursday, February 24, 2005, 18:01
Carsten Becker wrote:

> Hey! > > What is this name translated into English? There's a film in Esperanto as we > all know and also a rock band called like this. But what does the name mean?
A male demon[1] that has sex with sleeping women. The offspring of the coupling are vampires and werewolves. The female equivalent are the succubi[2]. K. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubus_%28demon%29 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succubus