[58] Causa autem quare dæmones se incubos faciunt uel succubos esse uidetur, ut per luxuriæ uitium hominis utramque naturam lædant, corporis uidelicet et animæ, qua in læsione præcipue delectari uidentur. This divine was a prominent figure at the Council of Bâle. I have used the Douai edition, 5 vols. 1602. [59] Dæmon in forma succubi se transformat, et habet coitum cum uiro ...; accedit ad mulierem in forma scilicet uiri.... Ita firmant communiter Theologi. [60] Certissima experientia sæpe cognitum est fœminas etiam inuitas a dæmonibus fuisse compressas. _De justa hæreticorum punitione_, Lib. I. c. xviii. Salamanca, 1547. [61] Hæc est indubitata ueritas quam non solum experientia certissima comprobat, sed etiam antiquitas confirmat, quidquid quidam medici et iurisperiti opinentur. _Conclusio quinta._ [62] Affirmatiuam sententiam tam multi et graues tuentur auctores, ut sine pertinaciæ nota ab illa discedi non posse uidatur. [63] _Rapports de l’homme avec le démon._ [64] _Les hauts phénomènes de la magic._ [65] Sane ad nostrum, non sine ingenti molestia, peruenit auditum quod ... complures utriusque sexus personæ, propriæ salutis immemores et a fide catholica deuiantes, cum dæmonibus incubis et succubis abuti. [66] The Dean of S. Paul’s (_Christian Mysticism_, 1899, p. 265) urbanely dismisses the whole subject with a quotation from Lucretius: Hunc igitur terrorem animi, tenebrasque necessest Non radii solis, neque lucida tela diei Discutiant, sed naturæ species ratioque. (I. 147-49.) These Fears, that darkness that o’erspreads our Souls, Day can’t disperse, but those _eternal_ rules Which from firm Premises true _Reason_ draws, And a deep insight into _Natures_ laws. (_Creech._) [67] _De Dæmonialitate_, 24. [68] _Survival_, by various authors. Edited by Sir James Marchant, K.B.E., LL.D. London and New York. [69] So in Middleton’s _The Witch_, when the young gallant Almachildes visits Hecate’s abode, she exclaims: ’Tis Almachildes—the fresh blood stirs in me— The man that I have lusted to enjoy: I’ve had him thrice in incubus already. And in a previous scene Hecate has said: What young man can we wish to pleasure us, But we enjoy him in an incubus? [70] Ce commerce monstreux dura plusiers mois; mais Dieu le délivra enfin par mon entremise et il fit pénitence de ses péchés.