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Specialty Definition: Incubus

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Demonology

In medieval legend, an incubus (plural incubi; from Latin incubare, "to lie upon") is a demon in male form supposed to lie upon sleepers, especially on women in order to have sexual intercourse with them. A female version was called a succubus. There are several possible explanations for the incubus legends:

• They form part of the well-attested Medieval preoccupation with sin, especially sexual sins of women.
• Actual rapes of sleeping women were attributed to demons by rapists in order to escape punishment.
• The feeling of smothering while sleeping is known to physicians. The modern term for this common disorder is sleep hypnosis or sleep paralysis.
• Because of the weight given to sin in the Middle Ages, nocturnal arousal, orgasm or emission were explained away by the legends of creatures causing an otherwise guilt-producing and self-conscious behavior. Thus people could say they were not to blame for it; it was obviously outside of their control: they were a victim.

During the witchhunts, alleged intercourse with demons or with Satan was one of the purported sins for which women were killed.

See also: Pan, Tail Man, Witchhunt, Succubus, Sleep paralysis, Diabolical pact, Francesco Maria Guazzo, Mara, Witch trial, Classification of the demons, Spina's classification of demons, Nature and appearance of the demons, Sexual relationships between demons and humans, Sexuality of the demons, List of specific demons and types of demons, List of sexology topics, Lust in demons, Incarnation of the demons

Entertainment

There is a 1990s rock band called Incubus. Marillion have a song on their 1984 Fugazi album called Incubus, which plays with this sexual connotation. The lyrics can be found here. There is a movie called Incubus.

See also: Music, Wolverhampton Varsity, Nu metal, Lollapalooza, Snot, Alternative metal, 2001 in music

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Incubus."

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Incubus (band)

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Incubus is a funk-metal band that consists of five men from Calabasas, California: Brandon Boyd (vocals and percussion), Mike Einziger (guitar), Dirk Lance (bass), Jose Pasillas (drums) and DJ Kilmore (turntables).

Brandon Boyd, Jose Pasillas and Mike Einziger met their original bassist, Alex Katunich, while at Calabasas High. In 1991, as Incubus, the band began playing at parties in their neighbourhood. For the next few years, Incubus continued to play live and write music, which cumulated in their first demo recording released in 1994, titled Closet Cultivation.

On January 7th, 1995, the demo tape Incubus was released, featuring songs that would later appear on their first album, Fungus Amongus, and their EP, Enjoy Incubus. On November 1st, 1995, Fungus Amongus was released on the band's own label, "Stopuglynailfungus Music on Chillum".

Between that release and their 1997 major label debut EP, Enjoy Incubus, the band acquired DJ Lyfe, who intorduced hip-hop sounds to the band, but would later be replaced by Kilmore. Enjoy Incubus was released on Immortal Records on January 7th that year, exactly two years after the band's second demo.

Incubus collaborated with DJ Greyboy to produce the song "Familiar" for the Spawn movie soundtrack in 1997. S.C.I.E.N.C.E., was released on September 9th, 1997.

In February 1998, DJ Lyfe was asked to leave, and Chris Kilmore was brought in to fill the (now fairly esteemed) position. The band then continued to tour, playing in Europe and America with the likes of Sugar Ray, 311, Far, One Minute Silence, Cold, Limp Bizkit, (hed) p.e, Snot Soulfly, System of a Down, Korn, Papa Roach, as well as playing the Warped Tour for three dates, the Ozzfest and the Family Values tour in the summer and fall of 1998. A live recording of the song "New Skin" appeared on the Family Values compilation CD.

After touring with Black Sabbath, Incubus began recording Make Yourself, which was released on October 26th, 1999. Immediately they went out on tour again, this time with Primus. "Pardon Me" was released as a single and -- as MTV began playing the video -- the band began to gain a mainstream following.

"Stellar" was the second single released from Make Yourself, and the video was played on MTV and TRL. After playing the Ozzfest tour again, a six song EP, When Incubus Attacks Volume 1, was released. In the first week of its release (August 22nd, 2000), When Incubus Attacks... sold almost 40,000 copies, and reached number 41 on the US Billboard Album Charts.

During the year 2000, Incubus toured with Queen Adreena, 311, Deftones and Taproot and played the Ozzfest again. Fungus Amongus was re-released on November 7th, 2000, as a response to demand for the indepedantly released album.

2001 was a busy year: Incubus went on the road with Hundred Reasons in the summer and played the Area One Festival before their Make Yourself went Double Platinum, selling two million copies. The band also played in Australia and Japan, before touring with Hoobastank in the United States. The "Drive" video was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in the category Best Group Video, but the award went to N'Sync.

The "Wish You Were Here" single was released on August 21st, 2001, and reached number two in the US. At the end of September the video for "Wish You Were Here" was released, after being re-cut in order to make it more "viewable" in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11th.

"Wish You Were Here" was the first single from Incubus' third major label album, Morning View, with was released on October 23rd, 2001. This album was recorded in a mansion on the Pacific coast of California, and the sound of the record is generally seen as a reflection of that environment, as opposed to the basement where S.C.I.E.N.C.E. was recorded. The house was located on a street named "Morning View"; hence the name. In interviews, the band all appeared very positive about their latest release; as Brandon Boyd puts it, "we all moved into a magnificent, Malibu mansion, set up our gear in the living room with a view of the ocean, and began creating what would be our most free-flowing work to date." [1]

Discography

• Fungus Amongus, 1995 album, re-released in 2000
• Enjoy Incubus, 1996 EP
• S.C.I.E.N.C.E, 1997 album
• Make Yourself, 1999 album
• When Incubus Attacks Volume 1, 2000 EP
• Morning View, 2001 album

External links

• EnjoyIncubus.com, the band's official site
• IncubusOnline, a fan site with lots of information

  Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Incubus (band)."

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Incubus (movie)

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Incubus is a black and white horror film originally released in 1965 and later restored in 2001. Incubus was directed by Leslie Stevens, creator of The Outer Limits, and stars a pre-Star Trek William Shatner. Its striking black and white cinematography was by Conrad Hall, who later went on to win two Academy Awards for his work on the films Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and American Beauty.

The story is about a succubus who falls in love with a deeply religious soldier (Shatner) she intended to seduce. Outraged by this, her sister summons their leader, a devilish incubus (Milos Milos), who rapes the soldier's sister and attempts to kill him.

The film was performed entirely in the constructed language Esperanto. It was done in Esperanto to create an eerie other-worldly feeling, and dubbing into other languages has been prohibited by the director. The 2001 DVD includes subtitles in English and French and the restoration was funded by the Sci-Fi Channel. Most English speakers have given the film good ratings and reviews, likening it to the work of Ingmar Bergman, while Esperanto speakers are generally disappointed by the actors' dreadful pronunciation.

It is a common myth that Incubus was the first Esperanto film, but Angoroj appeared in 1964, one year before Incubus.

Many members of the cast met rather gruesome fates after the film wrapped. Actor Milos killed his girlfriend and himself in 1966. Actress Ann Atmar, who plays Shatner's sister, committed suicide mere weeks after the film wrapped. And the daughter of actress Eloise Hardt was kidnapped and murdered. These grim events have given rise to a popular rumor that Incubus was a cursed production.

See also: Cult film

External Links

• http://www.incubusthefilm.com/
• The IMDb entry on Incubus
• Leslie Stevens' Incubus

  Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Incubus (movie)."

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"A Certain Shade of Green" by Toby Cummings Commentary: "I named this pic after my favorite song by Incubus. I took this photo at my family reunion when I started to get bored... I thought the tree limb in the center looked very cool and unique."	"Mini Disc 01" by Parahype Commentary: "Incubus MD."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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