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Yes, in the legend of Saint Hippolyte, Jacques de Voragine tells how a priest, tempted by a naked succubus, cast his stole at its head and it suddenly became the corpse of some dead woman whom the Devil had animated to seduce him." "Yes," said Gevingey, whose eyes twinkled.
"The Church recognizes succubacy, I grant.
But let me speak, and you will see that my observations are not uncalled for. "You know very well, messieurs," addressing Des Hermies and Durtal, "what the books teach, but within a hundred years everything has changed, and if the facts I am are unknown to the many members of the clergy, and you will not find them cited in any book whatever. "At present it is less frequently demons than bodies raised from the dead which fill the indispensable role of incubus and succubus.
In other words, formerly the living being subject to succubacy was known to be possessed.
Now that vampirism, by the evocation of the dead, is joined to demonism, the victim is worse than possessed.
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