An incubus in the Middle Ages is a demon, or fallen angel, who is attracted to sleeping women. The word itself comes from the Latin "incubare" - "recline on top." Incubi appear to women in a dream and have sex with them, after which they sometimes have children …
Demons from which the nuns gave birth
In the Middle Ages, the problem of the incubus was so urgent that in 1484 Pope Innocent VIII even issued a special bull, which contained instructions on how to protect oneself from a lustful demon. The incubus especially bothered the nuns. Hundreds of hermits in convents gave birth to them. Incubus and laywomen were not ignored. Although, it seems, women referred to the connection with this otherworldly entity only out of extreme despair, when nothing else could justify an unwanted pregnancy …
In the early Middle Ages, incubi were described as vile humpback dwarfs. It was believed that the children born from them were just as ugly and humpbacked. Often, in general, all babies with physical disabilities were declared not born from legal husbands, but from incubi.
According to the surviving documents, starting from the 17th century, the Incubus appeared to women as handsome men. There were also recorded cases when these were familiar men, but by that time they had died. Often incubi appeared in the form of deceased husbands.
Reports of incubus conception can be called fiction. But it's not that simple. Among the cases of love intimacy in a dream that ended in pregnancy, there are really mysterious ones.
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Mystical and legal case
In 1698, Professor Johann Klein of the University of Rostock in Germany described the case of 32-year-old Maria de Mondelon. This noble lady filed a lawsuit in the city of Grenoble with a demand to approve her young son in inheritance rights.
The piquancy of the situation lay in the fact that the son could not be born from her husband, Count Jerome Auguste de Mondelon. The count died in America four years before the birth of the child. This means that the boy could not claim his land and property. Nevertheless, Mary swore that she conceived from her husband, who appeared to her in a dream. The court rejected her request.
Then the Countess appealed against the refusal in the Parliament of Grenoble. Midwives and midwives took the side of Mary, who confirmed that conception in a dream is possible and happened more than once. The lawyers presented old documents certifying the birth of children to nuns in women's convents, which occurred as a result of the appearance of men in a dream. In the end, the parliament heeded the requests of the respected lady in a difficult situation.
This whole story about "conception in a dream" seems to look like a curiosity. But after some time, those around him began to notice that the boy, growing up, looked more and more like the late Count Jerome. In addition to the outward resemblance, the young man had his gestures and habits that were impossible to learn. The Count's friends said that he even had the voice of the deceased.
Professor Klein wrote that upon learning of all this, Jerome's old nurse and butler came to Grenoble. They were amazed when they saw the young man, and testified that it was the spitting image of Jerome de Mondelon. The mystery of the origin of the countess's son remained unsolved.
Otherworldly entities are capable of anything
No less mysterious is the case that occurred in the late 1980s in Moscow. Olga L., 20, was diagnosed with hypoplasia, or, as the people say, "baby's womb". With such a diagnosis, one has to say goodbye to dreams of childbirth. Olga's husband immediately left Olga. As Olga's relatives told, after his departure she cried all night. The depression lasted for a month. Olga cried day and night.
Finally, one night, when she fell asleep, exhausted, she dreamed of her husband. He repented of his act, asked for forgiveness, but most importantly, he entered into intimacy with her, which, according to the woman, was incredibly stormy. Saying goodbye to her, he whispered: "We will have a son" - and disappeared.
Two months later, the woman came to the gynecologist, who determined that she was eight weeks pregnant. How this happened - no one could say. But Olga was diagnosed not by one doctor, but by several, and in different clinics, which she bypassed in the hope that, perhaps, doctors are mistaken …
Later it turned out that women with such a diagnosis still give birth, but these are the rarest cases. Before Olga, only one such case was recorded in Russia. It happened in 1910, also in Moscow. True, there is a significant difference between the two episodes: that woman had the usual intimacy. And Olga, it turns out, gave birth to a ghost …
The reaction of her ex-husband to this event and the further fate of Olga herself are unknown to us.
Conception from an incubus scientifically proven
It makes no sense to dwell on cases of "conception in a dream" in healthy women, reports of which, no, no, but will appear in the world media. There is still a great possibility of deception here. Therefore, we will consider another episode, incredible from a medical point of view, somewhat similar to the case of Olga L.
This happened in 1972 in California, USA, with Teresa Rosalia F. At the age of 24, she was diagnosed no less serious than Olga: obstruction of the fallopian tubes. The diagnosis meant the inability to give birth. Prior to that, Teresa had been married for five years to a man who was 16 years older than her. Teresa had a miscarriage, after which she suffered an inflammatory disease, which resulted in obstruction of the tubes. After that, of course, she did not become pregnant.
When the doctors announced the diagnosis, her husband left her. For two years the woman did not let go of depression. Then, one of the November nights, an incident occurred in which not many people still believe. Teresa had a dream about a certain Michael, with whom she had an affair a long time ago, back in school. They did not come to real closeness, but the young people met until the guy died in a road accident. He crashed on his motorcycle.
Michael appeared to Teresa in a dream four times, and each time their meeting ended in closeness. On his fourth and last arrival, he mysteriously promised that soon they would unite forever …
In those nights, there were weak poltergeist manifestations in the house of Teresa: in the empty corridor, footsteps were heard, doors creaked, sounds of furniture being moved. After the fourth night, everything stopped. Soon Teresa felt that she was pregnant. The doctors were very surprised and offered her to have an abortion, claiming that the fetus would still not be able to develop in such conditions. Teresa flatly refused. The birth was very difficult and ended with the death of the woman. The child was born dead.
More than 25 years later, Dr. S. Lenichen tried to find an explanation for this mysterious case. He took advantage of the fact that in the hospital where Teresa was lying and her autopsy was performed, particles of her uterus and fetus were preserved.
All that remained was to find Michael's genetic material. At first, Lenihan planned to take this material from his close relatives, but it turns out that his bloody shirt was kept in the young man's family. Genetic examination showed that the father of Teresa's child with a probability of 98% was this same Michael …
- We live in a more than strange world, if such events can occur in it, - Dr. Lenichen throws up his hands.
However, some experts believe that the examination was carried out incorrectly …
In ancient texts, it is indicated that no one sees the sleeping woman during her intimacy with the incubus. All those around him are asleep. This suggests that the otherworldly essence can pass from ethereal appearance to tangible and back, because conceptions take place for real. It seems that in this respect, the nature of the incubus is akin to the nature of aliens, which, according to ufologists, have the same ability.
Igor Volozev