OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 25357

lamia

/ˈleɪmɪə/
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lamia
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.
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 i…
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