Sometimes the Bible implies one thing, and sometimes it implies something else entirely. See, the Bible isn’t exactly clear about exactly what angels and demons are like physically–or if they have physicality at all. That’s because, he writes, higher-end Catholic theologians had seriously worried for years about the logistics of demons. Stephens drily notes that the interrogators’ questions likely seemed “probably incomprehensible” to the accused witches. But when Church-aligned interrogators began asking questions of these accused witches, sex came up all the time. When neighbors and other unlearned people accused each other of witchcraft, they didn’t normally bring sex into it. Most remarkably, they almost always thought their infernal partners were fully human–until right after the deed.Īnd for Walter Stephens, one remarkable fact blew out immediately in front of all others: when he examined the transcripts of witchcraft trials from the fifteenth century onward, he noticed that the sex accusations generally originated with very learned, educated, literate interrogators.Īll but exclusively, this term means higher-end priests. Sometimes the people involved claimed to have enjoyed this sex, though often they regretted it. Demonic sex usually figured prominently in to these Christians’ accounts of induction into covens. Christians, mostly women but often men as well, exchanged their bodies for magical powers or for material help in surviving in a harsh, misogynistic culture.
These demonic sexytimes antics (MY NEW BAND NAME, FIGHT ME) generally occurred as a transaction. Walter Stephens’ 2003 book Demon Lovers makes crystal-clear one fact above all: for centuries, at least since the 1400s, Christians have either claimed to have had sex with demons or (more often) were tortured into confessing such acts. Christians have fantasized about the subject for many years. The whole notion of sex demons sounds so incredibly titillating and weird, but it isn’t new at all.
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