Lamia (/ ˈ l eɪ m i ə /; Ancient Greek: Λάμια, romanized: Lámia), in ancient Greek mythology, was a child-eating monster and, in later tradition, was regarded as a type of night-haunting spirit or "daimon". In the earliest stories, Lamia was a beautiful …

2023年3月23日 · Lamia was a female monster or spirit who belonged to the world of Greek popular religion. Usually represented as a hideous, foul-smelling creature, her most distinctive feature was her eyes, which she could remove from her head and store in a box.

2022年9月15日 · Lamia is a female or a hermaphroditic demon found in Greek mythology who devoured children and seduced men. She appears in literature as early as the 6th century BCE and is said to be fearsome to look upon with an ugly face, the upper body of a woman, and the lower body of a serpent.

The story of Lamia was passed from generation to generation and, in time, she became Ancient Greece’s most fearsome bogey-monster, a terrifying child-eating creature Greek mothers used to frighten their children into good behavior; sometimes, it seems that she was also called Mormolyca (or Mormo, for short), a word which can be roughly ...

LAMIA was a child-devouring sea-monster or night-haunting daemon. She was a daughter of Poseidon and mother of the monsters Skylla (Scylla) and Akheilos (Acheilus, the Shark). Lamia was originally a Libyan queen loved by Zeus.

Lamia, in Classical mythology, a female daemon who devoured children. The ancient commentaries on Aristophanes’ Peace say she was a queen of Libya who was beloved by Zeus. When Hera robbed her of her children from this union, Lamia killed every child …

2016年12月19日 · Lamia is a devastatingly beautiful monster, part woman and part serpent. Before she was cursed with her terrible new form, she was a powerful but relatively innocent woman.

2022年8月21日 · What Is Lamia? Lamia was an ugly monster who ate children after she lost her own offspring to Hera, the Queen of the gods. Later, Lamia became a shape-shifting phantom who ate young men after seducing them. The Greeks told the story of Lamia to their children to frighten them. The Origin Myth of Lamia

In Greek mithology, Lamia (Λαμια) was a child-devouring sea-monster or night-haunting daemon. She was a daughter of Poseidon and mother of the monsters Skylla (Scylla) and Akheilos (Acheilus, the Shark). Lamia was originally a Libyan queen loved by Zeus.

2015年10月12日 · Lamia, “shark”, “dangerous lone shark”, or “great white shark” (following various interpretations and contexts) is both a person and a class of nocturnal demons from Greece. Isidore of Seville refers to lamiae as witches, …