abstract:Ephialtes (lit. "jumping on you") is an anxiety disorder identified as such by John Bond in 1753, along with other authors of those times, in his treatise "Incubus".
Thismaybetrue, but the anecdotelookssuspiciously like Herodotus' s story of Ephialtes, whoshowed the PersiankingXerxes a roadto circumventThermopylae in 480.