Talk:Basilisk/@comment-28484169-20180626033534/@comment-29602226-20180627232117

The version of the Succubi as gender-shifters who took the sperm of male and used it to impregnate women as Incubi is in fact quite late...

During the Middle Ages and Modern Age there were three schools of thought regarding magic and sorcery:

1.-Magic isn't real (people who didn't believe in magic still believed in miracles, astrology, alchemy... etc).

2.-Magic is real, but demons and sorcerers can at most manipulate memories, perceptions and maybe light in order to create complex illusions that mimic physical effects... Magic and demonic powers can't really affect physical objects or people, they only appear to do so...

3.-Magic is real and it can affect physical objects...

Those people who believed that magic could affect the physical world, when asked how could summoned demons be solid if they were just spirits without a physical body, answered that demons would use their powers to manipulate the air an make it congeal to sculpt a fake body the demon could puppeteer from the inside...

When asked how could a body of congealed air impregnate a woman and produce a Cambion, they claimed that Incubi didn't use their own sperm to do so, but the sperm harvested from males as a Succubi....