Sunday, April 28, 2019

Wikipedia Trails Week 14 From Succubus to Crop Circles

Crop Circles
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Succubus
A succubus is a demon in female form, or a supernatural entity portrayed often in folklore. The succubus appears in dreams and takes the form of a woman in order to seduce men, usually through sexual activity. The male succubus in called the incubus. Religious traditions hold that repeated sexual activity with a succubus may result in the deterioration of health or mental state, or even death. Modern day representations take the form of a highly attractive seductress or enchantress however, in the past they were considered frightening and demonic.

Cambion
In late European mythology and literature, a cambion is the offspring of an incubus, succubus, or other demon with a human, or of an incubus and succubus. Merlin, the legendary wizard, alchemist, and teacher/advisor to king Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is a well known cambion, it being the source of his power. In the Encyclopedia of occultism and Parapsychology the cambion is said to be the direct offspring of the incubus and the succubus, foregoing any need for human involvement. The same incarnation retained the absence of breath or a pulse until seven year of age, but was said to have been incredibly heavy  and to have cried upon being touched.

Mooncalf
A mooncalf is a monstrous birth, the abortive fetus of a cow or other farm animal. The term comes from the once widespread superstition, present in many European folk traditions, that such malformed creatures were the product of the sinister influence of the Moon of fetal development. It is also used as a derogatory term indicating that someone is a dullard or fool. Also found in the Harry Potter series. Mooncalves perform dances in the moonlight and are apparently responsible for crop circles.

Crop circles
A crop circle or crop formation is a pattern created by flattening a crop. Crop circles have been described as all falling “within the range of the sort of thing done in hoaxes” by Taner Edis, professor of physics at Truman State University. Although natural causes or alien origins of crop circles are suggested but lack scientific evidence - all crop circles are consistent with human causation. The number of crop circle has increased from the 1970s to present. Most formation occur at night however, some have appeared during the day.



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