incubus
Andrew D. Crim
little guy sitting on a sleeping woman's chest making her dream of sex.
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Andrew D. Crim
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Dick Eney
Andrew D. Crim <and...@airmail.net> wrote:
>anyone have a picture of an incubus? i think I have the right name. A
>little guy sitting on a sleeping woman's chest making her dream of sex.
>
probably has it). He did an illustration of the Incubus...at least, of a
demon riding a woman in her sleep, though there's no way to tell what
she's dreaming of except that it's apparently uncomfortable.
And in the original myth "he" isn't sitting on her chest. The Incubus is
the pseudo-male form of a demon which, in its pseudo-female form, goes
around giving guys wet dreams and collecting the result. It then converts
to the pseudo-male form and transfers it to a woman, demons being unable
to generate semen themselves. (No matter what the hentai books would lead
you to believe.)
-- Dick Eney
.Nisaba Merrieweather
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> anyone have a picture of an incubus? i think I have the right name. A
> little guy sitting on a sleeping woman's chest making her dream of sex.
<smile> Buy yourself some art books containing reproductions of the works
of a Medieval painter called Hieronymus Bosch. His work, which is superb,
is crammed full of incubi, succubi, demons, suffering souls and the like.
It gives a very bleak window into MEdieval spirituality.
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.Nisaba Merrieweather
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Christian Joachim Hartmann
".Nisaba Merrieweather" <nis...@tac.com.au> wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> Andrew D. Crim <and...@airmail.net> wrote in article
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> > anyone have a picture of an incubus? i think I have the right name. A
> > little guy sitting on a sleeping woman's chest making her dream of sex.
>
> <smile> Buy yourself some art books containing reproductions of the works
> of a Medieval painter called Hieronymus Bosch.
Well, Hieronymus Bosch is nice, but I'm almost sure that Andrew is
having the famous Füseli Picture in mind, aptly called "incubus":
<http://btr0xw.rz.uni-bayreuth.de/cgfa/f/p-fuseli4.htm>
Henry Fuseli or Heinrich Füssli was a Romantic Swiss painter. He did
several versions of the 'incubus' motive. The one I linked above is
in Frankfurt o/Main, but we've got one in Cologne as well and there
should be some more.
Some links: <http://www.english.uga.edu/nhilton/Blake/VDA/vda-nightmare.html>
<http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/fuseli/>
<http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Garden/6284/Fuse.html>
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0670332852/malaspgreatbooksA/002-29
623 08-6000026> <http://www.dia.org/galleries/55-5-A.html>
By the way, searching for 'incubus' on the Net should get you pretty soon to
one of the Fuseli's paintings.
This painting is featured in an ingenious way in the British film 'Gothic',
which contains a scene where the incident of the picture is brought to life!
Sorry I can't come up with any Medieval examples, but - maybe -
the Romanticists were more Medieval than the Middle Ages themselves?
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> <smile> Buy yourself some art books containing reproductions of the
> works
> of a Medieval painter called Hieronymus Bosch. His work, which is
> superb,
> is crammed full of incubi, succubi, demons, suffering souls and the
> like.
> It gives a very bleak window into MEdieval spirituality.
>
better yet, go here http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/ there are also
several mirror sites. Go to the famous paintings section or the gothic
section, i forget which. they have a lot of Bosch paintings on the
web. very nice .jpgs
the artist