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Succubus carving, 16th Century, photograph by Andrew Dunn, 2006

“One of seven a 16th century wooden corbels supporting a jettied floor of a former coaching inn at 25 Magdalene Street, Cambridge. The bracket is in the form of a succubus, showing that the inn was also a brothel. The building is mid-16th-century and was originally the Cross Keys Inn, the largest of five inns that used to be in Magdalene Street.”  —  from Wkimedia Commons

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Photo credit:  By © Andrew Dunn (http://www.andrewdunnphoto.com/) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons.