lamia

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Definition of lamia in English Turkish dictionary: vampir; (Mitoloji) Poseidon'un kızı. Çocukları çalan ve yiyen iğrenç bir varlık. Zeus'un sevgililerinden biriydi ve ondan bir çok çocuğu olmuştu ancak kıskanç Hera çocuklarını öldürtünce Lamia çıldırdı ve çocuklara düşman kesildi; çocuk eti ve kanı ile beslenen kadın başlı yılan şeklindeki efsanevi canavar

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Definition of lamia in English English dictionary: A monster with the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent, which ate children and sucked the blood from men; A city in Greece; 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; {i} mythological monster having a woman's head and torso and a snake's body (Classical Mythology); vampire, female demon; (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living; A female phantom, whose name was used by the Greeks and Romans as a bugbear to children She was a Libyan queen beloved by Jupiter, but robbed of her offspring by the jealous Juno; and in consequence she vowed vengeance against all children, whom she delighted to entice and murder (See Fairy ) “Keats has a poem so called His Lamia is a serpent who assumed the form of a beautiful woman, was beloved by a young man and got a soul The tale was drawn from Philostratus ”- De Vita Apollonii book iv , introduced by Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy Lammas At latter Lammas- i e never (See Never ); a female demon: vampire

lamia

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la·mi·a

leymiı

/ˈlāmēə/ /ˈleɪmiːə/

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