Magic Library (1826) - Page 23

shared the general notion of his time in this regard.

I now only wish to quote literally the relevant passage from the Hexen-Hammer. It stands in the first part of that monstrous work, Question Three: An per Daemones Incubos et Succubos detur hominum procreatio? Latin: "Whether the procreation of humans can occur through Incubus and Succubus demons?" Frankfurt edition (according to which the excerpt in my Dämonomagie Demon-Magic is prepared), page 244 etc.

Moreover, that statement of the Apostle, 1 Cor. XI: "A woman ought to have a veil upon her head because of the angels," is explained by many Catholics as follows: "because of the angels," that is, because of the Incubi male demons who assault women. To the same effect is Beda in his History of the English. Likewise Guiliel. in the book De Universo, last part, Treatise VI., in many ways. Furthermore, the Holy Doctor St. Thomas Aquinas also determines this in the first part, Q. XXV., and in the second writing, Dist. VIII., and each VI. Q. X., and upon Isaiah, chapters XIII and XIV. Hence, to deny such things, says St. Thomas, is impudence. For that which seems true to many cannot be entirely false, according to the Philosopher Aristotle, De somno et vigilia On Sleep and Waking at the end, and in 2 Ethics. I remain silent about the many authentic histories, both of Catholics and heathens, who openly assert that Incubi exist, etc.

So much for the New Testament! We now proceed in our investigations for the historical illustration of the primordial notions of Gen. VI. to other sources.