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Noun(1) (folklore(2) genus of Old World herbs: dead nettles; henbits(3) (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living [also: lamiae (pl)]

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(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.
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