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A female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men
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succuba
Word definitions for succuba in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men [syn: succubus ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A female demon or fiend; a succubus.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Succuba \Suc"cu*ba\, n.; pl. Succub[ae] . [NL., fr. L. succubare to lie under; sub under + cubare to lie down; cf. L. succuba, succubo, one who lies under another.] A female demon or fiend. See Succubus . Though seeming in shape a woman natural Was a fiend ...
Usage examples of succuba.
Lovely phantom of dreams, expert succuba clothed in velvet human flesh, who had planned so far and so well.
Incubi and succubae howled praise to Hecate, and headless moon-calves bleated to the Magna Mater.
Her fantasized partners in this obscene intimacy are like succubae, renowned and feared as demonic beings that have sexual intercourse with men in their sleep.
I needed to know where my feelings began and ended and where his did, and what was only incubi and succubae drama lingering in our subconscious so Marlene could help purge us both.
Incubae and succubae, the shriek of the mandrake root pulled from the ground which drove a man mad if he heard it, chloroform a decoy of Satan, smallpox a visitation of God: all those, and many more, he could believe that he would not have believed, but would have stood forth, as he was submerged now, in Reason.
It tortured her mind to know that her child's soul had bottomed out on the succubae level two.
Nobody but Malone, among those who inspected them, remembered the sombre question of old Delrio: 'An sint unquam daemones incubi et succubae, et an ex tali congressu proles nasci queat?