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What is an incubus?

What is an incubus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A feeling of oppression during sleep, sleep paralysis; night terrors, a nightmare.
  2. (by extension) Any oppressive thing or person; a burden.
  3. (entomology) One of various of parasitic insects, especially subfamily Aphidiinae.
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In the Old Testament the incubus was viewed as a voluptuous being eager to mate with women.
It is, however, an incubus for some three dozen of the world's poorest countries.
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.
Like an incubus, it sucks all the economic resources of the world, and robs it of the best talent.
The earliest literary sources have Merlin as a wonder child, born of an incubus, and a Welsh nun.
I wriggled my back in order to discover, if I could, the nature of the incubus.

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