{"id":798,"date":"2023-08-01T19:44:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T00:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/?p=798"},"modified":"2023-10-11T21:59:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T02:59:03","slug":"incubi-and-succubi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/2023\/08\/01\/incubi-and-succubi\/","title":{"rendered":"Incubi and Succubi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Back in the Middle Ages, people were troubled by demons who would come at night to seduce them.  Women were seduced by male-appearing demons called incubi (singular, incubus); men would encounter succubi (singular, succubus).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Evidently the demons were attempting to lead their victims astray by offering sexual pleasure.  There were various solutions to this problem, mostly prayer or reciting of the Gospels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">We may smile at these claims now.  Probably people had erotic dreams and blamed them on evil spirits.  And sometimes a person awakens to find they cannot move &#8211; called sleep paralysis.  There is often a strong impression of someone sitting on the victim&#8217;s chest.  Certainly there were no actual demons to seduce innocent victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">And yet, we also have our version of similar demons.  We call them &#8220;aliens.&#8221;  Unlike the demons, who evidently seduced their victims in their own beds, aliens kidnap their victims, bring them to their vehicles, and perform odd examinations and often sexual acts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Honestly, I don&#8217;t see a whole lot of difference between the demonic attacks and the aliens.  Same basic idea, seduction or sexual violation at night, when the victims is sleeping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the Middle Ages, people were troubled by demons who would come at night to seduce them. Women were seduced by male-appearing demons called incubi (singular, incubus); men would encounter succubi (singular, succubus).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}