incubus and succubus

incubus and succubus
Demons (male and female, respectively) who seek to have sexual intercourse with sleeping humans.

In medieval Europe some believed that union with an incubus resulted in the birth of witches, demons, and deformed human offspring. Merlin was said to have been fathered by an incubus.

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