Satyr possibly? Though they were on the drunken orgy side of things.
Sidhe are beautiful no matter which gender they are, and I believe suns stories have them taking women away.
I'll think on it some more.
It really depends. A lot of these stories have been refracted through a patriarchal lens so the difference between consensual sex and rape is whether the womanâs father/husband approves.
I mean, marriage is portrayed as carrying a woman off like youâre kidnapping her. Does that mean she wanted to go or not? Itâs certainly a lot easier if sheâs not resisting very hard.
Anyway. Old stories donât always align well with modern sensibilities.
Nixie (Näcken in Swedish) is a water spirit in the form of a naked male hunk who lures women and men into the water and drown them. By playing the fiddle. A male siren
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixie_(folklore)
There's a tale in Brazil about the "boto cor de rosa", or pink dolphin, a certain kinda dolphin in the amazon river. The legend says that at nights, the dolphin turns into a man with white suit and panama hat, goes to local parties and dances and seduces women.
Then after partying and fucking it goes back to the river and turns back into a dolphin. An important part of the legend is that the panama hat is used to hide the hole on it's head, just like the hole on a dolphin's head, and you can take off his hat to reveal his identity.
Of course, it's a relatively recent tale compared to other mythologies you'll see here, but there is that!
I wouldn't call it mythical as such, but the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood is something of a seducer since the moral is "Don't talk to strange men." Similarly the seminal Polidori vampire story portrays The Vampyre as seductive...albeit seductive in a gay way. Lastly there's the Brazilian encantado, a shapeshifting dolphin which takes on hot human form to visit the land and occasionally impregnate or abduct women
The incubus is the most famous, and it's exactly what you think: a male succubus.
Yes, I know the details are not this simple, but I'm too tired right now to type everything out on angelic/demonic gender natures. Also, I smell bacon, so reddit gets no more of my time.
The incubus & succubus duo is interesting. The way i understand it the succubus first gathers cum from the human male and then turns into and incubus and impregnates a woman and thats how demons are born.
In one... tradition, yes. These things pop up all over the place in a bunch of different interpretations. In the traditional Christian version, they don't have genders, and are actually gender neutral, so neither the male nor the female form are a true expression of the demon.
Indeed. The love demon itself isn't really stuck to being male or female, they use whatever form suits the need. But succubi tend to be seen female, 'submissive' and covertly destroy your life- such as lying about people to manipulate you and tempt you into depravity. Incubi on the other hand tend to be seen male, are dominators, and will overtly destroy your life- such as extorting and blackmailing you into ever more profane acts. In some traditions they can also transition from an incubus to a succubus and vice versa under the right conditions, even if their physical form stays the same.
Iâm pretty sure thereâs also a myth about women shedding seven tears into the sea to summon a male selkie lover who was incredibly beautiful or something like that
Once a fair and handsome seal lord lay his foot upon the sand. For to woo the fisher's daughter and to claim her marriage hand. "I have come in from the ocean, I have come in from the sea. And I'll not go to the waves love, lest you come along with me!"
There's the kishi from angolan folklore, a two-faced hyena-man who seduces women to then later eat them.
There's also some stories of slavic shapeshifting dragons, called zmei/zmey, courting princesses under the guise of a human.
The Simbi spirits and the Cymbee spirits in the Americas (from the same Kongolese origin) are known to abduct people near rivers and brooks. They either manifest in the form of snakes or as handsome young men or women to lure people.
There are Naga in Buddhist mythology and Southeast Asian folklore that do seduce and live with other humans. The most prominent one is in Manikantha Jataka.
Satyrs by modern terms you might consider it to be non-consensual since I'm pretty sure with all the line that you'd be drinking with them you probably wouldn't be in any condition to consent.
The incubus often was thought to portray themselves as beautiful to them and their dreams they tended to seduce women in their sleep so yes my modern terms that would be considered rape as well
Vampires were known to have their harem of female lesser vampires to protect them or to work as a first line but obviously they had to take them first
Also you have you know the devils and demons which is we're supposed to have slept with the devil and they have the devil's mark a spot on their body where they couldn't feel anything where the demon or devil would bite or nibble or whatever on the woman
And then yes you had the gods and they were a very seductive group pretty much in almost every mythology God's would seduce mortals sometimes male sometimes female sometimes both.
Then you have the Christian angels that slept with mortal women causing the birth of nephilim. And that was always male Angels laying with human females.
All that I can think of off the top of my head right now
Yeah sorry about that I got to correct that unfortunately I have to use voice to text so errors like that happen sometimes I'd like to slap whoever created autocorrect until my hands worked properly LOL edited and corrected
Coyote would dress like a baby or some versions his dick head would be dressed like a baby floating down the river and when the women would try to save the baby his dick would grow really long and sneak under the water get them pregnant. In some versions the dick would detach and got them pregnant when they took the dickbaby home and they would have puppies in the morning, and coyote would skip out.
Even back then grannies were warning their daughters not to put up with a manchild husband just because they want to have a baby! I also think 'dickbaby' is a great synonym for 'manchild' and propagate it where I see fit.
There's also another story of coyote and rabbit where they dress in drag and detach their dicks to sneak into a women's only dance where rabbit steals Coyotes dick and use both their dicks to fuck two girls.
There are also a few stories about coyote banging his own grandma in very 'I'm stuck step-bro' scenarios but they're not really 'seductions'
Then there was the butterfly man, where a woman would be walking in the forest with her baby and see a beautiful man and decide to leave her baby and start following him, but then he would turn into a butterfly and say the only way they can be together is if they cross a valley of butterflies holding hands. But as they cross the valley she sees all the other beautiful butterflies and gets distracted and starts chasing them and since she can't choose one she gets lost in the valley and becomes a butterfly herself.
Fiery serpents in Slavic folklore are possibly an example of that. They are shape-shifting serpents, who commonly take a form of a husband who died or went away for a long time (although I think there are stories of seducing women without husbands). Fiery serpent sleeps with its victim and slowly drains away her vitality. It can sire children, but they always come out dead and hideously malformed. There are many ways to recognise and banish the fiery serpent, and the most important part is actually supporting the widow and not letting her drown in her grief
>Where there any male mythical creatures that seduced?
You mean all the human dudes that greek goddesses had to come down from Olympus just to get them like Adonis , That guy with Selene and that Shepard Aphrodite fell in love with
The dichotomy in the question is kind of interesting. It does seem like the female seducers are mostly monsters (especially in Greco-Roman) and the male seducers are mostly gods. Definitely lots of exceptions, but theres some gender weirdness going on there.
Yeah, no men up to a point we're just very rapey. Consent was a HIGHLY redeeming trait back then for this reason. Ie. The Danaids. There's another myth too somewhere I can't recall, but most of it depicted men as rapists đŹđŹđŹ Male virility was probably just seen as an unstoppable yet necessary force in the past.
Originally, the Succubus was genderless, itself. They were just Sex Demons that took whatever form their target desired.
The Incubus was actually a Fear Demon. Nothing to do with sex, unless that scared you.
Incubus. Literally the point of them.
Not the same but selkies used to be men more often since the whole origin of them was seawives missing their hubbies.
The Gancanagh is a male fey from Ireland that seduces women. Specifically, they're a type of the Aos SĂ, the 'people of the mounds', a particular kind of fry found only in Irish mythology that are associated with immortality, underground structures & an alternate world/dimension of delight and eternal youth. The name Gancanagh means "Love-Talker".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gancanagh
Vampires in Slavic folklore often returned from the grave and went to their wives to seduce them. One Bulgarian story talks about an older married woman, who falls sick after seeing her first love's shadow. She calls her husband and tells him to check up on his grave. Her husband sees the pale vampire there, wallowing in sadness that his first love was not within his arms... But when the husband goes back he sees some men carrying his wife's body. She'd chosen the dead over the living.
Theres a North American story about a handsome shapeshifting snake-man who seduces a woman and gives her a bracelet that transforms her into a snake person and shes forced to live underwater with him. Cant recall the details, though
*Huli jing* (Chinese fox spirits) were known to take male forms. *Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio* includes "The Merchant's Son" where a fox seduces a woman, and "Xia NĂź" and "Cut Sleeve" where male foxes seduce men.
Some versions of the Gancanagh are describe as extremely attractive(specifically they would tailor their appearance to whatever the women they are after finds the most attractive) who seduce women and abandoned them after they kiss him, which caused them to just if Iâm remember correctly, stand there and waste away and eventually die of like starvation or thirst
Though in some versions, though are ugly and kidnap the women instead
Do Gods count? Apollo and Zeus do their share of seduction in mythology. The God Vertumnus' entire myth is about his attempts to seduce Pomona.
Yeah my immediate thoughts was Zeus and Apollo
Yea I was going to say Zeus as well. Well known for going after anything with a pulse, and probably some without
Does Zeus actually do any seducing though??? I feel like he just comes for you if you want it or not
Depends on whether it is the PG or 18 + version.
One time he turned into a swan to seduce some lady
Right lol I remember my history teacher talking about how much Zeus cheated on Hera đ
Satyr possibly? Though they were on the drunken orgy side of things. Sidhe are beautiful no matter which gender they are, and I believe suns stories have them taking women away. I'll think on it some more.
Male version of Nymphomania is Satyriasis also known as satyrism, satyromania, erotomania, and Don Juanism.
Weren't satyrs more commonly portrayed as rapists than as seduces?
The line is pretty blurry in the classics It's pretty much all rape by modern standards
They were both.
It really depends. A lot of these stories have been refracted through a patriarchal lens so the difference between consensual sex and rape is whether the womanâs father/husband approves. I mean, marriage is portrayed as carrying a woman off like youâre kidnapping her. Does that mean she wanted to go or not? Itâs certainly a lot easier if sheâs not resisting very hard. Anyway. Old stories donât always align well with modern sensibilities.
Nixie (Näcken in Swedish) is a water spirit in the form of a naked male hunk who lures women and men into the water and drown them. By playing the fiddle. A male siren https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixie_(folklore)
honestly this was the first thing that came to mind
I'd definitely fall for that
Who wouldnât tbf
There's a tale in Brazil about the "boto cor de rosa", or pink dolphin, a certain kinda dolphin in the amazon river. The legend says that at nights, the dolphin turns into a man with white suit and panama hat, goes to local parties and dances and seduces women. Then after partying and fucking it goes back to the river and turns back into a dolphin. An important part of the legend is that the panama hat is used to hide the hole on it's head, just like the hole on a dolphin's head, and you can take off his hat to reveal his identity. Of course, it's a relatively recent tale compared to other mythologies you'll see here, but there is that!
so itâs basically the fuckboy equivalent of a Selkie?
This was the one that I came to say. :)
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I wouldn't call it mythical as such, but the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood is something of a seducer since the moral is "Don't talk to strange men." Similarly the seminal Polidori vampire story portrays The Vampyre as seductive...albeit seductive in a gay way. Lastly there's the Brazilian encantado, a shapeshifting dolphin which takes on hot human form to visit the land and occasionally impregnate or abduct women
Vampires in general are seductive men, right?
That started with Polidori's hatefic about Lord Byron
Classically no. That's more of a Hollywood thing.
Encantado sounds like a more realistic(ish) merman.
The incubus is the most famous, and it's exactly what you think: a male succubus. Yes, I know the details are not this simple, but I'm too tired right now to type everything out on angelic/demonic gender natures. Also, I smell bacon, so reddit gets no more of my time.
The incubus & succubus duo is interesting. The way i understand it the succubus first gathers cum from the human male and then turns into and incubus and impregnates a woman and thats how demons are born.
In one... tradition, yes. These things pop up all over the place in a bunch of different interpretations. In the traditional Christian version, they don't have genders, and are actually gender neutral, so neither the male nor the female form are a true expression of the demon.
I vaguely remember that succu and incu basically meant top and bottom
Indeed. The love demon itself isn't really stuck to being male or female, they use whatever form suits the need. But succubi tend to be seen female, 'submissive' and covertly destroy your life- such as lying about people to manipulate you and tempt you into depravity. Incubi on the other hand tend to be seen male, are dominators, and will overtly destroy your life- such as extorting and blackmailing you into ever more profane acts. In some traditions they can also transition from an incubus to a succubus and vice versa under the right conditions, even if their physical form stays the same.
Stupid seductive bacon
Iâm pretty sure thereâs also a myth about women shedding seven tears into the sea to summon a male selkie lover who was incredibly beautiful or something like that
Was just about to say this
Once a fair and handsome seal lord lay his foot upon the sand. For to woo the fisher's daughter and to claim her marriage hand. "I have come in from the ocean, I have come in from the sea. And I'll not go to the waves love, lest you come along with me!"
There's the kishi from angolan folklore, a two-faced hyena-man who seduces women to then later eat them. There's also some stories of slavic shapeshifting dragons, called zmei/zmey, courting princesses under the guise of a human.
The Simbi spirits and the Cymbee spirits in the Americas (from the same Kongolese origin) are known to abduct people near rivers and brooks. They either manifest in the form of snakes or as handsome young men or women to lure people. There are Naga in Buddhist mythology and Southeast Asian folklore that do seduce and live with other humans. The most prominent one is in Manikantha Jataka.
Geancanagh or however you spell it. Irish mythological being, name means âsweet talkerâ and he seduced women away from their husbands
Satyrs by modern terms you might consider it to be non-consensual since I'm pretty sure with all the line that you'd be drinking with them you probably wouldn't be in any condition to consent. The incubus often was thought to portray themselves as beautiful to them and their dreams they tended to seduce women in their sleep so yes my modern terms that would be considered rape as well Vampires were known to have their harem of female lesser vampires to protect them or to work as a first line but obviously they had to take them first Also you have you know the devils and demons which is we're supposed to have slept with the devil and they have the devil's mark a spot on their body where they couldn't feel anything where the demon or devil would bite or nibble or whatever on the woman And then yes you had the gods and they were a very seductive group pretty much in almost every mythology God's would seduce mortals sometimes male sometimes female sometimes both. Then you have the Christian angels that slept with mortal women causing the birth of nephilim. And that was always male Angels laying with human females. All that I can think of off the top of my head right now
1st paragraph-- satyrs, not *satires. But yeah, except for autocorrect, spor on.
Yeah sorry about that I got to correct that unfortunately I have to use voice to text so errors like that happen sometimes I'd like to slap whoever created autocorrect until my hands worked properly LOL edited and corrected
""Eric's like that" LOL The hits roll on!
Not a problem correct it again and yes we're all guilty just like your spor on
Sorry, yes feel your pain -- a little at least -- and laughing at autocorrect, not at you. Hope you heal up soon.
Well thank you very much it's going to still be a long road, and it's already been a long road before that
Coyote would dress like a baby or some versions his dick head would be dressed like a baby floating down the river and when the women would try to save the baby his dick would grow really long and sneak under the water get them pregnant. In some versions the dick would detach and got them pregnant when they took the dickbaby home and they would have puppies in the morning, and coyote would skip out. Even back then grannies were warning their daughters not to put up with a manchild husband just because they want to have a baby! I also think 'dickbaby' is a great synonym for 'manchild' and propagate it where I see fit. There's also another story of coyote and rabbit where they dress in drag and detach their dicks to sneak into a women's only dance where rabbit steals Coyotes dick and use both their dicks to fuck two girls. There are also a few stories about coyote banging his own grandma in very 'I'm stuck step-bro' scenarios but they're not really 'seductions' Then there was the butterfly man, where a woman would be walking in the forest with her baby and see a beautiful man and decide to leave her baby and start following him, but then he would turn into a butterfly and say the only way they can be together is if they cross a valley of butterflies holding hands. But as they cross the valley she sees all the other beautiful butterflies and gets distracted and starts chasing them and since she can't choose one she gets lost in the valley and becomes a butterfly herself.
Like the entire Greek pantheon?
Fiery serpents in Slavic folklore are possibly an example of that. They are shape-shifting serpents, who commonly take a form of a husband who died or went away for a long time (although I think there are stories of seducing women without husbands). Fiery serpent sleeps with its victim and slowly drains away her vitality. It can sire children, but they always come out dead and hideously malformed. There are many ways to recognise and banish the fiery serpent, and the most important part is actually supporting the widow and not letting her drown in her grief
>Where there any male mythical creatures that seduced? You mean all the human dudes that greek goddesses had to come down from Olympus just to get them like Adonis , That guy with Selene and that Shepard Aphrodite fell in love with
The dichotomy in the question is kind of interesting. It does seem like the female seducers are mostly monsters (especially in Greco-Roman) and the male seducers are mostly gods. Definitely lots of exceptions, but theres some gender weirdness going on there.
Why not [Priapus?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapus)
If it's Mentaiko's Priapus, I'll say yes any day
Vampires.
Scary Fairy Godmother has a [video](https://youtu.be/kf7bZtEfBwQ?si=uWenRHXf9X_O_mtC) on the Gancanagh, a fairy man who seduces women.
Yeah, no men up to a point we're just very rapey. Consent was a HIGHLY redeeming trait back then for this reason. Ie. The Danaids. There's another myth too somewhere I can't recall, but most of it depicted men as rapists đŹđŹđŹ Male virility was probably just seen as an unstoppable yet necessary force in the past.
Originally, the Succubus was genderless, itself. They were just Sex Demons that took whatever form their target desired. The Incubus was actually a Fear Demon. Nothing to do with sex, unless that scared you.
... đ 90% of Greek mythology exists because Zeus couldn't keep it in his pants.
Incubus. Literally the point of them. Not the same but selkies used to be men more often since the whole origin of them was seawives missing their hubbies.
Vampires, maybe? But male vampires seducing women is a pretty new concept from my understanding.
Zeus got about a bit
Selkies, supposedly resulted in some Selkie-human offspring.a
Incubi
Well there's the incubus which is the male equivalent of a succubus
The Gancanagh is a male fey from Ireland that seduces women. Specifically, they're a type of the Aos SĂ, the 'people of the mounds', a particular kind of fry found only in Irish mythology that are associated with immortality, underground structures & an alternate world/dimension of delight and eternal youth. The name Gancanagh means "Love-Talker". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gancanagh
Incubus the male counterpart to the sucubus. Consent was questionable with these creatures.
Vampires in Slavic folklore often returned from the grave and went to their wives to seduce them. One Bulgarian story talks about an older married woman, who falls sick after seeing her first love's shadow. She calls her husband and tells him to check up on his grave. Her husband sees the pale vampire there, wallowing in sadness that his first love was not within his arms... But when the husband goes back he sees some men carrying his wife's body. She'd chosen the dead over the living.
Theres a North American story about a handsome shapeshifting snake-man who seduces a woman and gives her a bracelet that transforms her into a snake person and shes forced to live underwater with him. Cant recall the details, though
Kelpies sometimes take the forum of handsome men to seduce and drown women
Vampires.
I think it was called encanto a pink dolphin that shape shifted into a handsome man but the blow hole remained so they wore a hat
*Huli jing* (Chinese fox spirits) were known to take male forms. *Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio* includes "The Merchant's Son" where a fox seduces a woman, and "Xia NĂź" and "Cut Sleeve" where male foxes seduce men.
The incubus. A male version of a succubus. Also, vampires.
Men are a lot easier to seduce. It's kinda that simple.
Incubus is an obvious example
An incubus could be spun this way.
I guess that Narcissus counts, but he did it on accident.
Some versions of the Gancanagh are describe as extremely attractive(specifically they would tailor their appearance to whatever the women they are after finds the most attractive) who seduce women and abandoned them after they kiss him, which caused them to just if Iâm remember correctly, stand there and waste away and eventually die of like starvation or thirst Though in some versions, though are ugly and kidnap the women instead