Sentence examples for incubus from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, these apparent advantages have turned into an incubus.

The departure of the annexed territory of East Timor, sanctioned by the MPR this week, is to be welcomed; it lifts an incubus from Indonesia which has prevented it from carrying the weight it deserves in world councils.

It is, however, an incubus for some three dozen of the world's poorest countries.

Many of the people of Zanzibar, however, sincerely believe in Popobawa, an incubus who supposedly rapes men who doubt his existence.

When Mr Weizman met Nabil Ramlawi, a PLO official, in 1990, breaking Israeli law, it was as if he had taken tea with an incubus.

If we are justified in assuming that the setback in American industry will only be temporary, we may look forward to steady development in 1930, free from the incubus that has of late been hampering world conditions.

Succubus, female form of an incubus.

In medieval Europe, union with an incubus was supposed by some to result in the birth of witches, demons, and deformed human offspring.

With one bound, however long delayed, he had broken free of the Wilson incubus.

The legendary magician Merlin was said to have been fathered by an incubus.

The word incubus is derived from the Latin incubus ("nightmare") and incubare ("to lie upon, weigh upon, brood").