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Succubus in japanese11/3/2022 ![]() When late at night the Yuki-onna would again go out on a journey, the old man would attempt to take her hand to stop her, when he noticed that she was chillingly cold. ![]() In the Aomori and Yamagata Prefectures, there is a similar story about one called the "Shigama-onna." In the Kaminoyama region of Yamagata, a yuki-onna would come visit an old couple on a snowy night to warm herself by the irori. This woman was reluctant to go into the bath and when she was made to go in anyway, she disappeared, leaving only thin, fragmented, floating icicles (see also tsurara-onna). In legends from the Ojiya region of Niigata Prefecture, a beautiful woman came to visit a man and became his wife from the woman's own desire. In Arabian Folklore and Islam Qarinah is female demonic being and type of Succubus which may be or may not be a Genie.Yuki-onna (雪女) from the Gazu Hyakki Yakō by Toriyama Sekien Some interpretations also say that Lamia is not one single entity, but a group of creatures all of their own, known as, "Lamiae," plural of, "Lamia." In other tellings, Zeus hid her within a cave where, again similarly to Medusa, was given permission to kill anyone that dared enter into the area. To add insult to injury, Hera then killed her two children, and cursed to woman to walk the Earth searching for her deceased children and/or eating the children of others'. Other interpretations of Lamia revolve around her being the mother of two of Zeus's children, to which upon Hera finding out cursed the woman into a snake-like being similar to Medusa. legend has it that, if you see such a woman in a graveyard who appears to need help, you are supposed to call out to her, for the Lamia cannot answer back, since she has a snakes tongue and can only hiss. ![]() She would lie in wait for a naïve victim, looking as if she needs his assistance in some way. The lamia was said to appear in graveyards as a beautiful woman who draws young men to their deaths. Other authors say that she could have been a fertility goddess (this connects her again with Ishtar, Astarte and Asherah), and some Neopagans consider Belili a mother goddess.Ī related concept is the Lamia from old English legends. Some authors, however, relate her with Lilith, who is commonly associated with the demon Asmodai and considered a female demon with the function of acting as a succubus. As the wife of Bel she can be associated with Ishtar for Assyrians and Babylonians, with Astarte for Semites, and with Asherah for Philistines in this sense Belili can also be associated with sacred prostitution and human sacrifice (of children, by fire). The Canaanites called her Baalat or Baalit, the wife and female counterpart of Baal. She was later included in the Babylonian pantheon with the name of Belili or Belit-ili (also spelled Belet-ili), acquiring in some time a much higher status as the wife of Bel (the Assyrian and Babylonian equivalent to Baal). 'Belili' was first a Sumerian minor goddess called Gesht-inanna, sister of Dumuzi, and wife of Nin-gishzida (the door keeper of An). Went the man who engendered them was about to die, they surrounded his bed waiting for the moment during which they could take their father's soul, impeding his travel to the Underworld, and making of him an errant spirit, feared by all living people. They were engendered during a men sleep with Lilitu or one of her demon servants. In Akkadian mythology they were a race of monstrous and faceless demons that destroyed all that they could capture. ![]() The ghostly version of the succubus is the soul of a young woman who died in or near a lake (many of these rusalki were murdered by their lovers), and came to haunt that lake this undead rusalka is not particularly malevolent, and will be allowed to die in peace if her death is avenged.Īllu are the offspring of Succubi. She corresponds to the Scandinavian and German Nixie. Men who were seduced by her died in her arms, and in some version her laugh can also cause death. In Slavic mythology 'Rusalka' was a female ghost, water nymph or succubus-like demon who lived in a lake. People feel pressure on their chest, and some people report that they observed Mara laying on their chest, sometimes choking their necks, and mostly inducing sleep paralysis. 'Mara' is the name of a fabulous ogress who hags people when sleeping. Men and also mothers feared the attack of the lilin, because they were also said to kidnap children, like Lilith. They are demons, with their function being that of a succubus. Jewish mothers believed Lilith would come to take their children away and eat them.Īccording to Jewish folklore, the 'lilin' are the daughters of Lilith and Adam, engendered while she was his wife. A demon-woman who hunts men, seduces them and drains their life with a kiss. In both Islamic and Jewish myths however, she is a succubus. ![]()
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