![]() In the Talmud and the Zohar he is identified with Satan himself, but in other texts he is not the Satan but a Satan, because “satan” is a title that means “accuser” and can refer to multiple spirits. The interesting thing about Samael is that he is both good and evil. His name means “venom of God,” and he is sometimes described as an Angel of Death. Samael is an interesting, mysterious, and contradictory figure. In my research of obscure folklore, I’ve stumbled across several named succubi in Jewish folklore-the four brides of Archangel Samael.īefore I discuss Samael’s concubines, I should probably discuss Samael himself. ![]() Obviously, these demons appear pretty often in pop culture because sex demons! If you’re going to be a demon, why not be a hot one? They’re a nice subversion of demons being ugly, monstrous things. Merlin is traditionally a cambion, the child of a human woman and an incubus. They take the form of succubi to steal semen from human men, and then take the form of incubi to impregnate human women with now-demonic spawn. Some legends say that they are all hermaphrodites that require human hosts to reproduce. There’s a lot of weird legends about them, for example, succubi are reportedly… cold on the inside. They’ve been blamed for everything from sleep paralysis to nocturnal emissions (because of course, a PRIEST would never have a sexy dream! It must have been an evil succubus!). ![]() Incubi and succubi mainly come from medieval folklore, and they probably stemmed from the demonization of sexuality. The succubus is the female, and preys on men. The incubus is the male, and preys on women. ![]()
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