The belief in incubi and succubae ( and their ability to procreate ) seem to have inspired the seventh category, but it could also have been inspired in the Talmudic legend of demons having sexual intercourse with mortal women ( see also Mastema ).
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Vauxcelles, perhaps more so than his fellow critics, indulged in witty mockery of the salon Cubists :'But in truth, what honor we do to these bipeds of the parallelepiped, to their lucubrations, cubes, succubi and incubi '.
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The beings are spirits of deceased people from earth and are divided into distinct groups : Storytellers ( bearers of good dreams ), Incubi ( cause of nightmares ), and Drifters ( those in a state of limbo who cause neither good or bad dreams ).
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And Magdalena de la Kreuz, though she was the abbess of Cordoba, told of mating in her dreams, from the time she was 12, with Incubi-- including one frighteningly obscene creature " with goats'legs, a human torso and the face of a faun ."
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The book does not address why a human female impregnated with the semen of a human male would not produce a regular human offspring, although after transferring the male semen to the Incubi it is believed the semen is altered to match the genetic material of the Succubus and the incubi before being transferred to a human female host.
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The book does not address why a human female impregnated with the semen of a human male would not produce a regular human offspring, although after transferring the male semen to the Incubi it is believed the semen is altered to match the genetic material of the Succubus and the incubi before being transferred to a human female host.
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According to the " Malleus Maleficarum ", exorcism is one of the five ways to overcome the attacks of incubi, the others being Sacramental Franciscan friar Ludovico Maria Sinistrari stated that incubi " do not obey exorcists, have no dread of exorcisms, show no reverence for holy things, at the approach of which they are not in the least overawed ."
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According to the " Malleus Maleficarum ", exorcism is one of the five ways to overcome the attacks of incubi, the others being Sacramental Franciscan friar Ludovico Maria Sinistrari stated that incubi " do not obey exorcists, have no dread of exorcisms, show no reverence for holy things, at the approach of which they are not in the least overawed ."
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In his short tenure he did much to improve the magazine, persuading the established writers to produce better material and finding unusual variations on the interplanetary adventure theme such as Poul Anderson's " Duel on Syrtis " in March 1951, about an Earthman tracking an alien on Mars, and Theodore Sturgeon's " The Incubi on Planet X ", about aliens who kidnap Earth women.
