In classical mythology, the Lamia is one of a class of female monsters depicted with a snake's body and a woman's head and breasts. She occurs in various forms, generally as a daemon who devoured children, and in later myths as the queen of Libya who was beloved by Zeus and of whom Herastole their children, in response to which Lamia killed every child she could lay her hands on. In another form,
Lamia is depicted as a beautiful woman who seduced young men so that she could eat them. Research Lamia
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Research Lamia
