What's the difference between banshee and incubus?
Banshee
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Banshie
Example Sentences:
(1) Rob Auton: The Water Show Banshee Labyrinth, to 30 Aug A show all about water.
(2) It was not the familiar banshee scream of a lovelorn vixen, but a rapid, almost mechanical, yipping.
(3) The big story Once upon a time the Oscar ceremony was a comforting drone punctuated only by the odd song-and-dance routine and the banshee wailing of overwhelmed best actress award winners.
(4) With bands such as the Banshees and the Bunnymen opting for lavish orchestrations, Bush now seemed less like a throwback to pre-punk times and more like a sort of posh auntie to the goths.
(5) In 1976, the two friends formed one of the first punk bands, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
(6) They call him the Shoreditch Creeper and ascertain that he's a Siouxsie & The Banshees fan.
(7) Richard Gadd Banshee Labyrinth , 6-28 August Facebook Twitter Pinterest Anarchic stunt comedy … Richard Gadd.
(8) Luther and Ripley then proceed to bicker over what genre the Banshees are: "Post-punk."
(9) Instead of doing a body scan, I fantasized about flinging off my pillows and running through the empty space in the center of the hall, screaming like a banshee.
(10) Natasia Demetriou And Ellie White Are Mother And Baby is at the Banshee Labyrinth, 8-30 August
(11) I fantasized about flinging off my pillows and running through the hall, screaming like a banshee Studies have shown that people who are blind or deaf have heightened ability in other bodily senses.
(12) From trapping a banshee in a bin to dealing with zombie students, it’s an action-packed adventure full of smart kids that grownups won’t mind watching either.
(13) It's like this: in the face of American capitalism and its defenders, there is almost nothing to be done but stomp up and down on the remains of popular culture and shriek like a banshee.
(14) There's also a cover version of Hong Kong Garden by Siouxsie and the Banshees, which augurs well.
(15) Natasia Demetriou And Ellie White Are Mother And Baby is at Banshee Labyrinth, to 30 August PHIL WANG How to heckle Facebook Twitter Pinterest Phil Wang.
(16) This morning, 14 years on, Wright is pulling together and fact-checking his script to make sure his audience is whipped into a factually sturdy frenzy on topics such as a proposal to regulate legal highs ("What does Banshee Dust actually do ?").
(17) Richard Gadd, whose Waiting for Gaddot was the buzziest hit of last year’s fringe, is likewise back in the (free) Banshee Labyrinth pub – although that’s a mite more explicable, given how in your face and non-mainstream Gadd’s work is.
(18) I didn't fully appreciate it at the time but, looking back, the lineup was unmissable: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Echo and the Bunnymen, U2, Young Marble Giants, the Durutti Column, Soft Cell, the Psychedelic Furs, Altered Images .
Incubus
Definition:
(n.) A demon; a fiend; a lascivious spirit, supposed to have sexual intercourse with women by night.
(n.) The nightmare. See Nightmare.
(n.) Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that prevents the free use of the faculties.
Example Sentences:
(1) It contains chapters on modern syndromes, eg, headache, paralysis, epilepsy, and vertigo, as well as disorders of the time, eg, incubus and phrenitide.
(2) A private incubus squatting on an anaesthetised public space.
(3) Aside from the punk icon, the cast also includes *NSYNC's JC Chasez as Pontius Pilate, Destiny Child 's Michelle Williams as Mary Magdalene and Incubus frontman and long time fan, Brandon Boyd, who has been cast as Judas Iscariot.
(4) It was to star Lydon as King Herod, Williams as Mary Magdalene, Brandon Boyd of Incubus as Judas and JC Chasez of 'N Sync as Pontius Pilate.
(5) Santa, hard at work in his orbiting space castle (don't ask) is powerless to help as the campy incubus schemes to corrupt virtuous little boys and girls.
(6) The term "incubus syndrome" is proposed to describe patients suffering from the delusion that they have been sexually approached at night by an unseen lover.