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

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Thursday, February 24, 2005, 22:47
Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...> wrote:
> 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?
Outside of the aforementioned answer (demon seducing sleeping women), the word also came to mean "nightmare" in general, which probably indicates it wasn't a very pleasant kind of demon. *Muke! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/