succuba

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The characters sport names like the Tick, Succuba and the Cutter, and there is lots of mumbo-jumbo about a “bloody sack” and a “dwarfish female creature.”

From New York Times

For example, the vile confessions made both by Scotch and French peasant women accused of witchcraft concerning the nocturnal visits paid them by male devils230 find an exact counterpart in passages of the Cabala, where it is said that "the demons are both male and female, and they also endeavour to consort with human beings--a conception from which arises the belief in incubi and succubæ."

From Project Gutenberg

"Diabolical Mysticism" includes witchcraft, diabolical possession, and the hideous stories of incubi and succubæ.

From Project Gutenberg