succubus
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But “Die for Me” offers compelling counterarguments — like, what if that succubus is gorgeous, rich and erudite?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
She doesn’t need to go into all the drama of what a financial succubus her mom is, because that won’t be productive.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2021
She mothered iconic unhinged villains, like the green-horned succubus in “Curse of the Crimson Altar.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2019
A few days later, a protective encasement splits and healthy adult mosquitoes take flight, with a new generation of succubus females ready to feed.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2019
Most of us can boast than we have never been cruel to a hippopotamus or had dealings with a succubus or taken a bribe of a million pounds to betray a friend.
From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd
This and several other exercises in hot-pink op-art hang near silk-screen prints that depict folkloric old-Europe visions of demons, crocodiles and succubi, alongside such New World moments as “Sitting Bull Goes to Washington.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2018
I enjoyed the episode’s take on the modern dating scene: One wonders how many succubi are trolling Internet dating sites at this very moment.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2014
It’s a razor-sharp takedown of powerful men whom Dunham calls “sunshine stealers”, a particular kind of male succubi that feed on young female talent and adoration.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2014
It starts with those small packets of Smarties, but if you take your eyes off the little succubi for even a nanosecond, they’ll soon be hoofing it down your front walkway with your decorative planters.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2011
When they were male, they were called incubi; and when female, succubi.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Charles Mackay