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Succubus (top) and incubus (center) visiting a sleeping woman (Fortean Picture Library)
the deed, which one devil would abhor to
commit”—implying that certain demons would
object to playing both the male role and the female
role in the semen transfer process.
Why, however, are demons so intent on
promoting human reproduction Kramer and
Sprenger provide a number of different reasons:
The reason that devils turn themselves into
incubi or succubi is not for the cause of
pleasure, since a spirit has not flesh and
blood; but chiefly it is with this intention, that
through the vice of luxury they may work a
twofold harm against men, that is, in body
and in soul, that so men may be more given