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But these ex-communist, university-based scholars were made to carry the incubus of the past.
The Alp has widely been regarded as simply the German counterpart of the incubus or nightmare.
Has anyone had any experiences with what might be considered a succubus or incubus?
The earliest literary sources have Merlin as a wonder child, born of an incubus, and a Welsh nun.
Like an incubus, it sucks all the economic resources of the world, and robs it of the best talent.
In the Old Testament the incubus was viewed as a voluptuous being eager to mate with women.
He is said to have been the child of a human mother and an incubus, or demon.
Many economists have in recent decades come to be persuaded that there is a way to get the political incubus off the economy's back.
Merlin was the son of an incubus and a human, condemned to age backwards, so that he predicted the past, remembered the future and used his skills to preserve the time line.
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.
As an incubus, a practitioner of blood magic and a dispenser of pain, it is not really surprising.
According to one legend, the incubus and the succubus were fallen angels.
In that case, the young people of Europe, harkening to the clearer call of their blood and their homeland, would regard the European entity, if thus constructed, as an obstacle or as an incubus.
Notions of civic virtue were at that moment changing, in ways which would make of Louis's alleged vices an incubus on the back of the monarchy.
Unfortunately, these apparent advantages have turned into 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.
Goldhagen has left us with an image of a medieval-like incubus, a demon latent in the German mind, which had been waiting for an opportunity to strike out.
While Nennius' Ambrosius eventually reveals himself to be the son of a Roman consul, Geoffrey's Merlin is begotten on a king's daughter by an incubus.
We're calling the film Incubus because we looked the word up in the dictionary and thought it sounded enigmatic.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The devil in this case acts the part of an incubus, but his performances as a succubus are more inconceivable.
I wriggled my back in order to discover, if I could, the nature of the incubus.
Remember that the Goodeniaceae have weighed like an incubus for years on my soul.
He even might be considered an incubus, for he had to be cared for in all ways.
So, along with all the rest of the harmony-killers, I am saddled for life with this ornithological incubus.
My object has been to disembarrass my force from the incubus of non-combatants.
She foresaw the musty room to which she was going, the slatternly incubus of a man.
Then, my dear Mrs. Berners, if this was not incubus, what do you suppose it to have been?
It may be added that the belief in the succubus and incubus appears to be widespread.
At the close of a few months, they had to be sent back to their caves, in order to deliver the veneto from an unbearable incubus.
It was one of those rash friendships that so often prove an incubus in afterlife.
I shall miss the incubus of the body, and the fleshly desires I have sloughed off with it.
But incubus told her if she would so forsake him, he would be revenged upon her.
I uncoiled the hose from my shoulder and eased the incubus from my back.
The first is how the murderer managed to slip off the dead man's coat, when he was already pinned to the ground with that stone incubus.
Three times she strove to throw off the incubus, to speak, but in vain.
It relates that one night incubus invaded a certain lady's bedroom.
He was appalled at the problem confronting him, weighted down by the incubus of his working-class station.
It has been an incubus of discouragement in all intellectual pursuits.
The incubus of legs and chelae and vital organs will be removed.
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