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Lamia

In Greek mythology, queen of the Laestrygones in Libya. She was loved by Zeus whose jealous wife, Hera, robbed Lamia of her children. In revenge Lamia seized and killed every child she could find.

In later Greek legend Lamia became a cannibalistic monster with the head and breasts of a woman and body of a snake.

In Roman mythology, the lamiae were vampires in the form of beautiful women who enticed young men into their arms and fed on their blood.



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[53] In Apuleius's Metamorphoses women change their shapes by rubbing themselves with ointment, there are lamiae noxiis (horrible witches), taeterrimaeque Furiae (hideous Furies), [54] cantatrices anus (old enchantresses), [55] Thessalian witches who bite the face of a corpse, [56] and have the supernatural power to bring down the sky, raise the spirits of the dead and make men fall in love with them.
 
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