But besides his especial nightmare-Mr. Paul Buys-the governor-general had a whole set of Incubi in the Norris family.
"History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89, Vol. II. Complete"
John Lothrop Motley Last Updated: February 7, 2009
The history of Incubi, or "night-comers," is doubtless, to a large extent, a narrative of the hallucinations, delusions, and automatic thoughts of the insane, although to what extent would be a difficult question to determine, because some were assuredly frightened into the confessions which they made; and, further, it is hard to say how much of a certain belief was due to the current popular ignorance and credulity, and how much to actual mental disease.
"Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles"
Daniel Hack Tuke
Safarik says under that head,- "Incubi sepe improbi existunt mulieribus, et earum peragunt concubitum, quos demones Galli dusios nuncupant."
"The Book of Were-Wolves"
Sabine Baring-Gould