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A Vindication of the Redhead“Real are the dreams”: Red Hairy Incubi and Unheavenly Succubi

A Vindication of the Redhead: “Real are the dreams”: Red Hairy Incubi and Unheavenly Succubi [This chapter gives a history of incubi and succubi, with the former imaged as red-haired goat-like creatures, and the latter, flaming red-haired and buxom females, both excessively sexually charged and obsessed with securing illicit sex with humans of the opposite or same gender. The first recorded depiction is in the Bible, followed by The Epic of Gilgimesh (2800–2500 BC), Augustine of Hippo’s On the City of God Against the Pagans (400–430), Beowulf (975–1025), the study of Franciscan friar Ludovico Maria Sinistrari (1622–1701), and the paintings by Henry Fuseli (1781) and Charles Walker (1870). The chapter also notes the widespread appearance of the incubus in early Germany, Brazil, Africa, Sweden, India, and Turkey. The presence of red-haired incubi and succubi pervade eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and literature. The chapter finishes with an analysis of Rosemary’s Baby (1967) and the current TV series Evil.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Vindication of the Redhead“Real are the dreams”: Red Hairy Incubi and Unheavenly Succubi

Ayres, Brenda
Springer Journals — Jan 1, 2022
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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978-3-030-83514-9
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49 –69
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10.1007/978-3-030-83515-6_3
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[This chapter gives a history of incubi and succubi, with the former imaged as red-haired goat-like creatures, and the latter, flaming red-haired and buxom females, both excessively sexually charged and obsessed with securing illicit sex with humans of the opposite or same gender. The first recorded depiction is in the Bible, followed by The Epic of Gilgimesh (2800–2500 BC), Augustine of Hippo’s On the City of God Against the Pagans (400–430), Beowulf (975–1025), the study of Franciscan friar Ludovico Maria Sinistrari (1622–1701), and the paintings by Henry Fuseli (1781) and Charles Walker (1870). The chapter also notes the widespread appearance of the incubus in early Germany, Brazil, Africa, Sweden, India, and Turkey. The presence of red-haired incubi and succubi pervade eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and literature. The chapter finishes with an analysis of Rosemary’s Baby (1967) and the current TV series Evil.]

Published: Jan 1, 2022

Keywords: Bible and red hair; Rosemary’s Baby; Evil; Incubus; Succabus; Beowulf

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