incubus

mythological creature who lies upon sleeping women
Thing general Q378070
incubus
Vincenz Georg Kininger · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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incubus

Summary

incubus ranks in the top 0.41% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,243 views/month, #316 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • incubus's image is recorded as Incubus.jpg[2].
  • incubus's image is recorded as The Nightmare (1790-1791) - Johann Heinrich Füssli.jpg[3].
  • incubus's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85064809[4].
  • incubus's subclass of is recorded as night hag[5].
  • incubus's subclass of is recorded as devil[6].
  • incubus's Commons category is recorded as Incubus[7].
  • incubus's said to be the same as is recorded as succubus[8].
  • incubus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/028nhv[9].
  • incubus's described by source is recorded as Nordisk familjebok[10].
  • incubus's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[11].
  • incubus's described by source is recorded as Infernal Dictionary, 6th ed.[12].
  • incubus's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13].
  • incubus's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14].
  • incubus's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • incubus's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • incubus's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[17].
  • incubus's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • incubus's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[19].
  • incubus's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/incubus[20].
  • incubus's different from is recorded as Incubus[21].
  • incubus's Treccani ID is recorded as incubo[22].
  • incubus's RationalWiki ID is recorded as Incubus_and_succubus_myths[23].
  • incubus's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007543301305171[24].
  • incubus's Archive of Our Own tag is recorded as Succubi a Incubi[25].
  • incubus's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 09565997-n[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for incubus include Incubus[27], a film[28], directed by Leslie Stevens[29] and incubation[30].

Why It Matters

incubus ranks in the top 0.41% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,243 views/month, #316 of 77,819).[1] incubus has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] incubus is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for incubus include Incubus[27], a film[28], directed by Leslie Stevens[29] and incubation[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  23. [24] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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