Jun 24 2009
Incubus, Succubus and Hag Attacks
Welcome back, dark passengers. Four quick updates and then we’ll dive right into tonight’s topic.
- Ritual Awakening, Part 1 of the Denying Destiny Trilogy, begins on the full moon (aka July 7th). Check out the prologue and summary information only on Your Littlest Sin.
- Your Dark Passenger has been lucky enough (if you believe in luck, of course) to get the inside track on information from paranormal investigations going on in my neck of the woods. Wanna hear what a ghost sounds like? Oh, yeah…I’ve got the EVP’s. Wanna hear what’s like on a real investigation, not the hyped up Hollywood ones? Yeah, I’ve got that too. Big thanks to Paranormal Investigations of North Texas for sending all the goodies my way. Keep an eye on the sidebar for their site link (when I update next) and for the first EVP…if I ever learn how to load it onto my blog.
- Want to know the meaning of your dreams? Check out our Dark Passenger sister site for the ongoing series on the importance of dreams. Also, Dexter fans won’t want to miss the recap series starting from the pilot episode and taking us all the way through the Season 3 Finale in preparation for the beginning of the new season. Ooh…Want to find out about my experiences with channeling? It’ll be there too…soon.
- Have you ever heard people talk about “crystals” even though you think they really just look like magic rocks? We’ll soon begin an ongoing series on crystals to demystify what is they do…and we’ll do it right here on Your Dark Passenger.
Okay, that was longer than it was quick. Let’s get onto the good ol’ Incubus/Succubus, shall we?
Since my intros went way long, I’ll set up the issue tonight and come back tomorrow or Friday with the correct information. (You’ll understand what I mean by that in a moment.)
On the way to work yesterday, hubby and I were listening to 102.1 The Edge. Normally they just talk about total crap, but they play great music so it’s a pretty good trade-off. Yesterday was different.
Yesterday, they discussed the paranormal.
Sort of.
I mean, I knew not to expect much from them - not when the host had never heard of half the terms being discussed and his sidekick started off by basically saying it was all a bunch of crap and anyone who believed in this stuff should have their meds checked. (Don’t you love it when people too unaware to see the world as it really is decide to force their opinions on others over and over and over again?)
Anyway. The caller they were talking to said she was the victim of an Incubus and she didn’t know what to do about it. The advice she received was as follows:
- The host said he didn’t see the problem because he’d love it if a Succubus (female version of Incubus) came to have sex with him every night.
- Sidekick chick made comments about whether she’d been on the same medications since it began.
- A psychology student called in to say her professor told them once it was all in their minds and was a form of night terrors. (Don’t you love when the scientific community tries to explain parapsychology issues? Can you say WAY out of their depth…)
- Another caller said she was also the victim of the same thing, but that in her research it wasn’t called an Incubus, it was called a “Hag Attack”. (I guess she got her research from the other chick’s psychology professor.)
About that time, we arrived at my office and I no longer had to listen to the host, sidekick and callers make total asses of themselves by discussing things they didn’t understand…And I saved myself the annoyance of wasting my time to call in to correct them all.
What would be the point, anyway? The asleep are happily dreaming until they choose to wake up…
So, like I said, I’ll come back tomorrow/Friday with the correct information on this topic, but would any of you care to take a stab at what was wrong with the advice given and comments made? (And seriously, I don’t want any comments about the Incubus/Succubus as it pertains to the Twilight series because hands down flat out Stephenie Meyer fucked up that concept big time in the book.)
Jen
“Let your dark passenger come out to play…Be your own nemesis!”
I’m gonna guess sleep paralysis!
That’s my take and I’m stickin’ to it :p
Just curious though…why is it offensive when a scientist offers a possible explanation to a phenomenon? We have to start with what we do know in order to chip away and eventually uncover that which we don’t, n’est pas?
I’m just sayin
[/devil’s advocate]
ps….good to see post from you now and then
Oh you and your cliff hangers!! :-p
I agree, people on either extreme are dangerous. To be fair though, what many people misunderstand about science is that science is, in fact, open to other possibilities. The ones saying science is all about facts that can be seen are usually the ones on the other side of the argument, you’ll notice. A scientist would not say that about science. Gravity is a theory that we arrived at after many many other possibilities were examined first (and some of those possibilities were taken as truth for a while-even though they were not correct). You can’t see or touch gravity, but we have a PDGG (pretty damned good guess) that it is there because we test it and see it’s effects which are consistent. If science were only concerned with one truth and walking away from it, we’d be in a very different world today.
That is the whole point behind scientific theory. We say..”this is the best explanation we have for this phenomena to date.” It leaves the door open for other substantiated explanations…but they have to be well supported before they are taken as possible. This is where the majority of debate comes in, I believe. Now I don’t know what the caller on that radio show said…so I speak only in general terms here of course.
I was reacting mostly to your statement about when the scientific community tries to explain parapsychology. That didn’t come across as the nut-case scientists who just want to drug everybody..that sounded pretty inclusive.
I’ll take a stab at this but I’m no expert and I don’t think anyone can really say someone is right or wrong about anything until we have a first-hand experience with something. And even then its up for personal interpretation.
I guess the thing that stood out to me was the host saying he wouldn’t mind it happenning to him.. but from what I remember about incubus they are supposed to have this forked or three-pronged member and the sex is supposedly very painful for the person involved.
But I dunno… *shrugs*
3-pronged? Ouch. It already sounded unpleasant enough, but…ouch.
I’d actually read they were supposed to be hideously unattractive, but that’s something I hadn’t yet heard…