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lamia noun According to Greek mythology, Lamia was a queen of Libya who was beloved by Zeus. When Hera, Zeus's wife, robbed Lamia of her children from this union, Lamia killed every child she could get into her power. Stories were also told of a fiend named Lamia who, in the form of a beautiful woman, seduced young men in order to devour them and who also sucked the blood of children. Such nightmarish legends compelled poet John Keats, and many other writers before and after him, to write their own tales of Lamia, which still haunt and terrify those souls who dare read them. : a female demon

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April 23, 2013 LAY-mee-uh In this campy horror film, the men of a college campus are attacked and killed by a seductive lamia who slips into their dorm rooms at night.   "She finds herself plagued by visions of a dreadful lamia, a man-eating monster that's half woman, half serpent." - From a book review on Kirkus Reviews, March 15, 2013

Word	lamia
Date	April 23, 2013
Type	noun
Syllables	LAY-mee-uh
Etymology	According to Greek mythology, Lamia was a queen of Libya who was beloved by Zeus. When Hera, Zeus's wife, robbed Lamia of her children from this union, Lamia killed every child she could get into her power. Stories were also told of a fiend named Lamia who, in the form of a beautiful woman, seduced young men in order to devour them and who also sucked the blood of children. Such nightmarish legends compelled poet John Keats, and many other writers before and after him, to write their own tales of Lamia, which still haunt and terrify those souls who dare read them.
Examples	In this campy horror film, the men of a college campus are attacked and killed by a seductive lamia who slips into their dorm rooms at night. "She finds herself plagued by visions of a dreadful lamia, a man-eating monster that's half woman, half serpent." - From a book review on Kirkus Reviews, March 15, 2013
Definition	: a female demon

Lamia Killed Woman Men Half April Noun Lay Mee Uh