John Trevisa speculates on how anyone could believe that a fiend could now beget a child. In the opinion of some people, he is incapable of it. The demon who often goes about at night to betray women is properly called an incubus; the kind which betrays men is called a succubus. God defend us from any such evil things! Whoever falls in to their clutches is in no happy condition
By a supernatural process fiends skilfully preserve & bring together the seed of men & women, and in this way they can cause a woman to bear children
Quoted in Caxton’s Britain
The manuscript notebook
