Demoniality: Incubi and Succubi

This book feels like it was written by a Vatican reject who is trying to justify his position within the church. I was so looking forward to this book, but was so disappointed with the material within. There is really NOT much demonology info in it!! The author kept going off on tangents about the church's position about demons. The book is thin, I thought I could read through it in one night. But it's lack of demon info, poor formatting (it reads like a very long sermon), and the on-going lecturing on the church's position on demons made this book absolutely painful to read!! What should've taken me 3 hours to read, took me 6 agonizing days. I tried to like it, I kept giving it chances thinking it'll get better if I just keep on reading, but boy was I wrong. I gave the book 2 stars because 1. it arrived very fast and 2. it looks exactly as depicted in the picture. If you enjoy reading a lengthy sermon filled with church lecturings and scoldings, I highly recommend this book. If you are looking for information on demonology, this book is a waste of your time & money.

It's a little dry, as might be expected from a book written in the 17th century and translated to English some time later, yet still distant from the present.Still, the book itself was informative not just for the explicitly described views on demonology, but also for the implicit depiction of the context of its writing. In fact the latter I found more fascinating, as many of the authors and authority figures referenced were indeed real, historical figures and can be read about or researched separately.The author takes great care to reiterate frequently that he means no offense or disrespect to the church or its favored scholars, and he leaves any salacious bits in Latin, presumably to obscure their content from readers who may be of a less high-minded disposition.If you can't discern Latin you'll need a translator for some passages, but other than that it's plain and easy to follow.

The translation seems to be well done, but some words don't have a English definition so you have to be familiar with some Latin or Canon terminology. Definitely written by a priest who took his work quite seriously and was writing all of this in a very literal sense. There are several instances where he share with us his own eye-witness accounts of dealings with the supernatural. Makes a good read for someone interested in Catholic Demonology. Found it it hilarious when Ameno called Martin Luther the offspring of an Incubus but given the schism in the church at the time due to Luther it makes sense he would refer to him as the son of a demon.

Much of the text is in English. However many random sentences will be in latin. This is an incomplete translation. Apparently this was intentional and by design of the original translator. Kinda lame, but that's a personal preference.This review was edited and score increased as a recognition of my own personal bias. It was corrected to present a fair and balanced review of the content itself as opposed to my own annoyance at what I erroneously believed to be incompetence or laziness on the part of the translator, Tarl Warwick.

Despite being written in the 17th century when witchcraft and following pagan ways was pretty much seen as a death sentence by religious intolerance of those times. The author sinistriari of ameno a friar in an act of tolerance tries very hard to point out that relationships between humans and succubi and incubi as being harmless. And the entities are akin to the Faery, Elves, satyrs, fauns , sylvans and sylphs of Greek mythology and Norse mythology. It's sad that this book was never taken seriously in it's day. And even now, because its a lesson of tolerance. Just as what was written in the old testament( Jewish bible ) in Micah 4:5.Let everyone walk according to their gods...we will walk in the name of our god forever.Iam definitely going to purchase another copy of this book again in the future.I am a follower of Wicca and Hecaterian witchcraft . And I give this book 5 stars.

I have only read a few pages and glanced at a few others and so far seems very informative, should be a good a read.

I brought this for the other half he thoroughly enjoyed it.

Interesting

Interesting book and quickly delivered.Thank you

Great