A cambion is a mythical demonic offspring of a succubus and an incubus.
The cambion child is typically sickly and bad-behaved, and often times malformed in some manner. According to traditional beliefs cambions tended to live shortened lives. Cambions may have been a pre-scientific explanation for birth defects and infant illnesses and mortality.
In literature and modern fantasy cambions are often shown as half-human, half-devil creatures with fiendish powers.
Another term for a cambion found in medieval literature is "changeling." Stories of changelings describe either a human baby being replaced by a fairy or demon and then raised by humans, or a human-demon or human-fairy hybrid. Ove...