Daemonialitas

By Ludovico Sinistrari. A 17th Century treatise about the classes of demons known as incubi and succubi, who seek to have sexual relations with human beings. Sinistrari held that such beings are partly material (though porous), and have souls that are capable of salvation. He described various measures, such as fumigations and perfumes, for repelling such demons. Concerning the existence of such beings, he wrote ". . . I premise that neither the existence nor the nature of the natural things in this world has been sufficiently investigated to allow of denying a fact, merely because it has never been previously spoken of or written about. In the course of time have not new lands been discovered which the Ancients knew not of? New animals, herbs, plants, fruits and seeds, never seen elsewhere? And if that mysterious Austral land came at last to be explored, as has been to this day vainly tried by so many travellers, what unforeseen disclosures would be the result!" Online editions of this work are available at Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive.

A copy of Daemonialitas was found in the possessions of the late Asaph Peabody. A quotation read "Promittunt Diabolo statis temporibus sacrificia, et oblationes; singulis quindecim diebus, vel singulo mense saltem, necem alicujus infantis, aut mortale veneficium, et singulis hebdomadis alia mala in damnum humani generis, ut grandines, tempestates, incendia, mortem animalium..." [AWD Peabody 192] The Project Gutenberg edition translates this passage as "...they promise the Devil sacrifices and offerings at stated times: once a fortnight or at least each month, the murder of some child, or an homicidal act of sorcery, and other weekly misdeeds to the prejudice of mankind, such as hailstorms, tempests, fires, cattle plagues, etc."

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