"succuba" meaning in English

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          "text": "a. 1610, The Mirror for Magistrates\nThough seeming in shape a woman natural / Was a fiend of the kind that succubae some call."
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          "ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 19",
          "text": "In other stories of the midrashim, Adam, in penance for his fall, abstains from sexuality for 130 years, but he is not able to control his nocturnal emissions; in his dream state female spirits, the succubae, come and have intercourse with him, and with Adam's seed they give birth to demons.",
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        "A female demon or fiend; a succubus."
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          "text": "a. 1610, The Mirror for Magistrates\nThough seeming in shape a woman natural / Was a fiend of the kind that succubae some call."
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