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succubus
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succubus: see incubus incubus (ĭng`ky
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succubus
1. a female demon fabled to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men
2. any evil demon

succubus
demon in the form of a woman. [Western Folklore: Briggs, 232]
See : Demon


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Yet, as Trudier Harris asserts about Beloved, Morrison "reverses/undermines our expectations of what ghost stories should be, as well as any conceptions we have about succubi, shapeshifters, and demons" (13).
To all such as dwell in trees; rock devils, Earth imps, tree demons, ghommids, dewilds, genie Incubi, succubi, windhorls, bits and halves and such Sons and subjects of Forest Father, and all That dwell in his domain, take note, this night Is the welcome of the dead.
 
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