The Black Mass - Of the Loves of the Incubi and Succubi

Beneath the inverted altar and the demon-lover lies one of the darkest chapters of European belief - the profaned rite and the spirits said to visit sleepers by night, examined here with unflinching scholarship.

Drawn from Montague Summers' The History of Witchcraft and Demonology (1926), this study treats the Black Mass - the sacrilegious inversion of the Latin liturgy - together with the incubi and succubi of demonological tradition, tracing them through theology, trial record, and the dec...