Such a thoroughly human child–like every human–would have a God-created soul and would live by the power of God, the only one who can give life. Eight hundred years later, Thomas Aquinas argued against the possibility of children being conceived by intercourse with demons: "Still, if some are occasionally begotten from demons, it is not from the seed of such demons, nor from their assumed bodies, but from the seed of men, taken for the purpose as when the demon assumes first the form of a woman, and afterwards of a man just so they take the seed of other things for other generating purposes". Many have verified it by their own experience and trustworthy perāasons have corroborated the experience others told, that sylvans and fauns, commonly called incubi, have often made wicked assaults upon women." Questions about the reproductive capabilities of the demons continued. He stated "There is also a very general rumor. Augustine touched on the topic in De Civitate Dei ("The City of God") there were too many alleged attacks by incubi to deny them.
Debate about these demons began early in the Christian tradition. Succubi, by contrast, were demons thought to have intercourse with men. Incubi were thought to be demons who had sexual relations with women, sometimes producing a child by the woman. These demons were originally storm demons, but they eventually became regarded as night demons because of mistaken etymology. Ardat lili is derived from ardatu, the word for a woman of marriagable age, and idlu lili is derived from idlu, meaning a grown man. Two other corresponding demons appear as well: Ardat lili, who visits men by night and begets ghostly children from them, and Idlu lili, who is known as a male counterpart to Ardat lili and visits women by night and begets from them. It is said that Lilu disturbs and seduces women in their sleep, while Lilitu, a female demon, appears to men in their erotic dreams. 2400 BC, where the hero Gilgamesh's father is listed as Lilu. One of the earliest mentions of an incubus comes from Mesopotamia on the Sumerian King List, c.
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