Incuba (Nightmare)

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at nb.net
Mon Nov 6 07:28:33 UTC 2000


 From "Lexicon Latinitatis Nederlandicae Medii Aevi" (Johanne W. Fuchs et
al., eds.) (Brill [Leiden], 1990), p. I 307:

incuba, ae, m. f. -- ...

2. daemon quidam (cf. incubus): CONFL. VOC. incuba, een mare vel een
meerminne vel elfinne, talis mulier; GEMMA een nachtmerrinne; et vid. neptina.

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This is apparently satisfactory semantically and morphologically (1st
declension, acc. sg. "incubam"); chronologically, I don't know.

-- Doug Wilson



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