(1) Another explores the death of Mozart and Van Gogh as the result of haunting by lamia .(2) We lamia were not supposed to fall in love with humans, but I was willing to break every existing rule for her.(3) Leinweber discusses the development of beliefs about sorcerers and female vampires ( lamiae ) in Greek and Roman texts through Apuleius and shows how they prefigured modern witchcraft and vampire legends.(4) This has obvious parallels with the striges and lamiae of classical myth and belief.