14 Facts About Lamia

Lamia, in ancient Greek mythology, was a child-eating monster and, in later tradition, was regarded as a type of night-haunting spirit .

In previous centuries, Lamia was used in Greece as a bogeyman to frighten children into obedience, similar to the way parents in Spain, Portugal and Latin America used the Coco.

Scholiast to Aristophanes claimed that Lamia's name derived from her having a large throat or gullet .

Lamia's became disfigured from the torment, transforming into a terrifying being who hunted and killed the children of others.

Lamia was the daughter born between King Belus of Egypt and Lybie, according to one source.

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Diodorus, Duris of Samos and other sources which comprise the sources for building an "archetypal" picture of Lamia do not designate her as a dragoness, or give her explicit serpentine descriptions.

Renaissance writer Angelo Poliziano wrote Lamia, a philosophical work whose title is a disparaging reference to his opponents who dabble in philosophy without competence.

John Keats's Lamia in his Lamia and Other Poems is a reworking of the tale in Apollonius's biography by Philostratus, described above.

English composer Dorothy Howell composed a tone poem Lamia which was played repeatedly to great acclaim under its dedicatee Sir Henry Wood at the London Promenade concerts in the 1920s.

Lamia is the main antagonist in the 2009 horror movie Drag Me to Hell voiced by Art Kimbro.

Lamia appears in Rick Riordan's The Demigod Diaries, appearing in its fourth short story The Son of Magic.

Lamia's is depicted as having glowing green eyes with serpentine slits, shriveled-up hands with lizard-like claws on them, and crocodile-like teeth.

In modern Greek folk tradition, the Lamia has survived and retained many of her traditional attributes.

In Renaissance emblems, Lamia has the body of a serpent and the breasts and head of a woman, like the image of hypocrisy.