Cambions
Offspring of the incubi and succubi (q.v.), according to Bodin and Delamare. Some are more kindly disposed to the human race than others. Luther says of them in his Colloquies that they show no sign of life before seven years of age. He says that he saw one which cried when he touched it. Maïole states, according to Boguet in his Discours des Sorciers (chap. XIV.), that a Galician mendicant was in the habit of exciting public pity by carrying about a Campion. One day, a horseman observing him to be much hampered by the seeming infant in crossing a river, took the supposed child before him on his horse. But he was so heavy that the animal sank under the weight. Some time afterwards the mendicant was taken and admitted that the child he habitually carried was a little demon whom he had trained so carefully that no one refused him alms whilst carrying it. a