a. 1610, The Mirror for Magistrates Though seeming in shape a woman natural / Was a fiend of the kind that succubae some call.
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a. 1610, The Mirror for Magistrates Though seeming in shape a woman natural / Was a fiend of the kind that succubae some call.
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In other stories of the midrashim, Adam, in penance for his fall, abstains from sexuality for 130 years, but he is not able to control his nocturnal emissions; in his dream state female spirits, the succubae, come and have intercourse with him, and with Adam's seed they give birth to demons.
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