This would allow them to acquire the cells needed for reproduction.” In other words, the succubus would take the seed from a man, and the incubus could plant it into a woman. Perhaps the Anakim giants had descendants who were the Philistine giants like Goliath.īut did the succubus play a role at all in this narrative? According to Aquinas and Augustine, “demons could take the forms of incubi and succubi and have relations with human beings.
Later the Bible refers to giants known as the Anakim who are descended from the Nephilim. Genesis 6 describes how the sons of men (demons) lay with human daughters, and their offspring were the Nephilim. Nevertheless, some theologians argue that demons found another way to spawn offspring: through humans. This raises the question of how angels or demons could survive as a species, but it appears they cannot be destroyed except by God-hence the fallen angels who meet their fate in the lake of fire ( Revelation 20). This may explain why we don’t see the Bible mentioning angel reproduction. Did Succubi Sire the Nephilim?Īs we mentioned, medieval literature maintained that demons could not have sex with one another. Still, we do have the passage in Genesis 6 to contend with. In short, the Bible offers little evidence for the existence of the succubus. Those names belong to males, and we see no indication of female angels in the Bible, but the Bible doesn’t get a survey of the whole angel population. Michael and Gabriel are the only angels mentioned explicitly in most Bibles seen today ( Revelation 12, Luke 1). After all, we often do not know the gender of good angels. We’ll cover more in the Nephilim section about how the succubi supposedly played a role in the Genesis 6 narrative.Īpart from that passage above, we can only do guesswork about the nature of demons. So what happens when a succubus and a human male bond? According to medieval theologians like Ludovico Maria Sinistari, demons cannot have sex with one another. According to many theologians, these giants spawned from the unions of male demons (incubi) and human females to create a human-demon hybrid known as the Nephilim. In Genesis 6, we encounter a group of giants who roam the earth. Contrary to the male demon counterpart (the incubus), a succubus attempts to lure human males via sexual acts. What Is a Succubus?Īs mentioned before, a succubus is a female demon. But is the succubus in the Bible? Should we make a distinction between male demons (incubus, incubi) and female demons (succubus, succubi) in the Bible? Does this bear any effect on how we live today? We’ll explore these questions and more in today’s article.
Some suggested succubi had something to do with the giants known as the Nephilim that ran around the earth. However, medieval theologians such as Thomas Aquinas not only believed in the female demon known as the succubus (succubi, plural). So why question the sex of demons, whether they come in male or female versions? It may not strike us as something to ask about. From what we can tell, we shouldn’t mess with anything demonic. Do female demons exist? This probably isn’t a question that worries us today.
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