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Lamia

//ˈleɪ.mi.ə// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city in Greece.
Noun
  1. 1
    A monster preying upon human beings, who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent. Greek

    "Apollonius […] by some probable conjectures, found her out to be a serpent, a lamia, and that all her furniture was like Tantalus' gold described by Homer, no substance, but mere illusions."

  2. 2
    (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living wordnet

Etymology

From Latin lamia, from Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lámia).

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