lamia

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1. lamia - Noun

2. Lamia - Proper noun

Meaning

A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch.

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I ignore religions,” said Brawne Lamia. "I do not succumb to them. Dan Simmons

Another, that Lamia was subsequently cursed by the goddess Hera to have stillborn children because of her association with Zeus; alternatively, Hera slew all of Lamia's children (except Scylla) in anger that Lamia slept with her husband, Zeus. Source: Internet

Ashton 1997 p. 115 There is also a strong connection between the idea of retreating into the imagination found within Keats's Lamia and in Tennyson's "Palace of Art". Source: Internet

In Montreal's tight-knit Lebanese community, almost everyone knows someone overseas who has been injured or killed in Tuesday's tragedy, according to Lamia Charlebois, who runs a Facebook page for the community. Source: Internet

Gittings (1968), 504 The final volume Keats lived to see, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, was eventually published in July 1820. Source: Internet

At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lamia and Servilius (or, less frequently, year 756 Ab urbe condita ). Source: Internet

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