succubus
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“That includes, but is not limited to ... actual humans, DMs, AI bots or succubus demons.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023
She doesn’t need to go into all the drama of what a financial succubus her mom is, because that won’t be productive.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2021
She mothered iconic unhinged villains, like the green-horned succubus in “Curse of the Crimson Altar.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2019
A few days later, a protective encasement splits and healthy adult mosquitoes take flight, with a new generation of succubus females ready to feed.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2019
Dr. Luther said he had heard from the Elector of Saxony, John Frederic, that a powerful family in Germany was descended from the devil—the founder having been born of a succubus.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. by Henry Cabot Lodge
This and several other exercises in hot-pink op-art hang near silk-screen prints that depict folkloric old-Europe visions of demons, crocodiles and succubi, alongside such New World moments as “Sitting Bull Goes to Washington.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2018
I enjoyed the episode’s take on the modern dating scene: One wonders how many succubi are trolling Internet dating sites at this very moment.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2014
It’s a razor-sharp takedown of powerful men whom Dunham calls “sunshine stealers”, a particular kind of male succubi that feed on young female talent and adoration.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2014
It starts with those small packets of Smarties, but if you take your eyes off the little succubi for even a nanosecond, they’ll soon be hoofing it down your front walkway with your decorative planters.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2011
Who this Lili Abi, or Lilith, is does not certainly appear, but, according to the Rabbis who wrote of old time, she is the first wife of Adam and queen of the succubi.
From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck