Articles relating to Lamia and her depictions. She is a child-eating monster of Greek mythology and, in later tradition, was regarded as a type of night-haunting spirit (daemon). The lamiai (‹See Tfd›Greek: λαμίαι) also became a type of phantom, synonymous with the empusai who seduced young men to satisfy their sexual appetite and fed on their flesh afterward. An account of Apollonius of Tyana's defeat of a lamia-seductress inspired the poem Lamia by John Keats.
Pages in category "Lamia"
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