Lamia (mythology)
Lamia is a demon in Greek mythology. A monster who preyed on human beings and who sucked the blood of children. It is often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent.
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The Kiss of the Enchantress (Isobel Lilian Gloag, c. 1890), inspired by Keats's Lamia, depicts Lamia as half-serpent, half-woman
Lamia (second version), with snakeskin on her lap, John William Waterhouse (1909)
A lamia-like creature on the cover of Other Worlds, November 1949.
A 17th-century depiction of Lamia from Edward Topsell's The History of Four-Footed Beasts
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