From: Professor Thurlow Piddler <walter at nova.org>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:06:31 +0600
Subject: [WSFA] Re: another fun test to take...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Hello Barry

On 20-Feb-02, Barry Newton wrote:
BN> At 12:43 PM 2/19/02, you wrote:
BN>> Hmmm, I'm a Succubus - is that good or bad, I wonder.

BN> Sounds kinda like fun, if you like variety.  Actually, the dictionary is
BN> pretty brief on succubi, but what I've never really understood is:  why,
BN> and what's the point of the things?  Surely there's more to it than giving
BN> sleeping guys interesting dreams?

If I recall correctly, one idea is that they steal the seed
of men and transfer it to others (succubi may even become
incubi for this purpose)---maybe they're the mythological
equivalent of adenoretroviruses (?whatever!? those little
guys that do the gene-splicing).  Succubi seem to be in
the vampire camp (but less dangerous than lamiae), but I'm
not sure whether that's a late development.  I think they
are first found in Hebrew mythology, but may go back farther.
Ain't it great what D&D can teach you!

They may just be an attempted explanation of [EXCUSE FOR :-)]
wet dreams.  Like "Well, fella, you seem to have had a little
fun last night."  "Not me, man, I was attacked by a demon!
It was terrible!"  I'd have been proud to have made up that
line of BS.

One thing for sure, succubi can't be doing it for pleasure:
as crummy we are when we're awake, when a guy's asleep---
Jeez Louise!

Be seeing you,

Prof. Thurlow Piddler, East Jesus State Teachers College

P.S.  I was an orc, but my answers were all over the place.