Succubi

Though a large majority of the similarities between Impata and Carmilla have already have been discussed, I thought I’d bring up the minor point of both of these characters’ remarkable abilities to charm and seduce the people they encounter in everyday life. Both women arrive under very unusual circumstances that they never fully explain to the characters they meet, yet these people who normally appear to be rational, fall hook line and sinker for the seductresses. In Carmilla, we are perhaps beginning to see the early stages of the vampire’s allure, which features heavily in Dracula, and subsequent iterations of the vampire tale. In Incan Mummy Girl, Impata arrives as a number of odd events have occurred, including the death of a student and the disappearance of a centuries old mummy, yet no member of the Scooby Gang seems able to connect the dots, as Impata seems unable to draw negative attention to herself. I suppose none of this is really that controversial, as both are considered types of succubi, which already have the stigma of seduction attached to them.