[37] Negant aliqui, credentes impossible esse quod dæmones actum carnalem cum hominibus exercere ualent. Sed tenenda est ut omnino certa contraria sententia. _Theologia moralis_, Tr. xxi. c. 11. p. 10. nn. 180, 181. [38] Idem dæmon qui est succubus ad uirum potest fieri incubus ad mulierem. In his monumental _Summa S. Thomæ hodiernis Academiarum moribus accomodata_, 19 vols. Liège, 1746-51. [39] _De Seruonem Dei Beatificatione_, Romæ, MDCCXC, Cura Aloysii Salvioni. Tom. VII. pp. 30-33. [40] Quæ leguntur de Dæmonibus incubis et succubis.... Quamuis enim prædicti concubitus communiter admittantur, sed generatis a nonnullis excludetur ... alii, tamen, tum concubitum, tum generationem fieri posse, et factam fuisse existimauerunt, modo quodam nouo et inusitate, et hominibus incognito. Sancho de Avila, bishop of Murcia, Jaen, and Siguenza, S. Teresa’s confessor (_ob._ December, 1625), in a commentary on Exodus discusses the curious question: _An Angeli de se generare possint?_ [41] Quidam hos dæmones incubos uel succubos dari negarunt; sed communiter id affirmant auctores. [42] Ad bestialitatem autem reuocatur peccatum cum dæmone succubo, uel incubo; cui peccato superadditur malitia contra religionem; et præterea etiam sodomiæ, adulterii, uel incestus, si affectu uiri, uel mulieris, sodomitico, adulterino uel incestuoso cum dæmone coeat. Lib. III, Tract iv. c. 2. Dubium 3. [43] The word bestialitas has theologically a far wider signification than the word _bestiality_. In 1222 a deacon, having been tried before Archbishop Langton, was burned at Oxford on a charge of bestiality. He had embraced Judaism in order to marry a Jewess. Professor E. P. Evans remarks: “It seems rather odd that the Christian lawgivers should have adopted the Jewish code against sexual intercourse with beasts, and then enlarged it so as to include the Jews themselves. The question was gravely discussed by jurists whether cohabitation of a Christian with a Jewess, or _vice versa_, constitutes sodomy. Damhouder (_Prax. rer. crim._ c. 96 n. 48) is of the opinion that it does, and Nicolaus Boer (_Decis._, 136, n. 5) cites the case of a certain Johannes Alardus, or Jean Alard, who kept a Jewess in his house in Paris and had several children by her: he was convicted of sodomy on account of this relation and burned, together with his paramour, ‘since coition with a Jewess is precisely the same as if a man should copulate with a dog’ (_Dopl. Theat._ ii, p. 157). Damhouder includes Turks and Saracens in the same category.” _The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals_, p. 152. London, 1906. [44] An oblate of S. Charles, d. 1631. [45] 1566-1622. His _Synopsis Theologiæ Moralis_ is a posthumous work, published 1626. [46] Bene ait Busembaum quod congressus cum dæmone reducitur ad peccatum bestialitatis. Hermann Busembaum, S.J., 1600-1668. [47] _Theologia moralis decalogalis et sacramentalis._ Venice, 1731.