Incubi and Succubi

 Carlotta was brushing her hair when she felt a sharp pain; something monstrous and insistent had found its way inside her and pushed itself deep, furiously assaulting her again and again, as if she were only a thing, not a human being. Frank De Felitty, in his novel The Entity, borrowed the true story of Carlotta Moran, a young woman from California.

These events occurred in the 1970s and were supported by psychiatric diagnoses and evidence such as physical injuries. Some researchers concluded that Carlotta was attacked by an incorporeal entity known as an incubus if male or a succubus if female.

This type of "rape" doesn't happen just once to individuals, and accounts of such events date back to time immemorial. Our case, described at the beginning, was quite unusual. These creatures usually didn't appear to human eyes, yet Carlotta was able to see her attacker. Carlotta reported that once he took the form of a dwarf, and another time he appeared as a tall, muscular creature with green skin. It was also strange that the incubus spoke to the woman and appeared to her not only at night but also during the day.

A client of psychologist Stan Gooch confided in her experiences of this nature. One night, when she awoke from a deep sleep, she saw a light on the ceiling forming the shape of a human eye, staring intently at her. The sensation was quite unpleasant, but the worst was yet to come. Suddenly, she felt a heavy, violent force on her body, as if a man wanted to make love to her. However, she couldn't see the mysterious "lover."

At first, she said, it was even pleasant. Then the pressure became more insistent, pressing her more and more firmly against the mattress. When the entity finished, the woman went to the bathroom. In the mirror, she saw that her mouth was full of pitch-black blood.

Victims of nocturnal rapes by unknown entities often include those haunted by ghosts, so-called poltergeists (they cause furniture to move on its own, objects to levitate, etc.). Carlotta also had to deal with a persistent ghost. It threw dishes, made disturbing noises, and shouted various nasty words at her.

"We have received reports that many people of both sexes... were engaging in lewd acts with evil spirits, incubi and succubi."

Pope Innocent VIII, 1484

In an attempt to explain the activity of these entities, researchers attempted to connect them with other paranormal phenomena. Stan Gooch, in "Creatures from Inner Space," describes how one of the researchers, a former police officer, heard startling dialogues despite the absence of any other individuals. A male entity attempted to sexually assault the researcher. When the attack repeated several days later, the researcher yelled at the intruder, "Get away, you son of a bitch!" and only then did it work.

Later, he was also visited by a demonic female entity, who equally vehemently desired sexual intercourse with him. Only when the entity weakened was he able to escape its grasp and fall asleep.

Studies of this phenomenon have shown that the entity is not always something unfamiliar. Some of the subjects reported hearing the voices of their deceased husbands or wives. The entities touched them. It is also significant that all of these individuals were over 40 years old.

Stan Gooch admitted to having sexual intercourse with a disembodied being:

"I awoke from my sleep, feeling a heavy weight pressing down on my right leg. I knew I was dealing with an incubus, and his presence delighted me..."

Stan Gooch, psychic 

DEMONS IN DISGUISE - In the dark ages, rumors often circulated that incubi and succubi could assume human form. They supposedly used the bodies of recently deceased people for this purpose. Upon entering the body, the spirit would create a replica of it and become the deceased's double. Grieving widows or widowers were then tricked into sexual intercourse.

It was also believed that witches regularly indulged in debauchery with demons, which were believed to grant them supernatural powers. Furthermore, entire generations of new devils were supposedly born this way. Sex with evil spirits had to be kept secret, as any contact with Satan's servants was punishable by death at the time; rape, however, was not an excuse. On the other hand, a suspicion arose, considered by some to be the most glaring example of heresy, that the Immaculate Conception was also the result of an attack by an incubus.

There's also a theory that all these rapes are our desires, projected by our brains, and we experience them in our bodies. In other words, our desires and fears are materialized, and then we experience the feelings we long for.