lamias

Rusalkas (Russian), lamias (Greek), succubi and incubi, dhampirs (Balkan) and sirens are just an example of creatures that take something permanent from you, often through seduction.

All That Vampire Stuff « Colleen Anderson 2009

Horrific creatures--vampires and lamias in particular - are often used as metaphors for mundane dangers.

A Conversation About In the Forest of Forgetting Abigail Nussbaum 2006

I found that I could remember it almost word for word, even the bits about supernatural anaethetists, lamias and slippermen.

Broadway memories neil h 2006

Horrific creatures--vampires and lamias in particular - are often used as metaphors for mundane dangers.

Archive 2006-10-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2006

We kind of forgot the werewolves and lamias and ghosts, so the only person with nightmares will be me.

Even in a little thing gillpolack 2005

I suggested to my class that we should end with lamias and ghosts and what Richard might have believed his afterlife would be.

Even in a little thing gillpolack 2005

The effect of this was startling in the extreme; one could not help thinking of the damnably lovely lamias and vampires of legend.

The Curse of the Pharaohs Peters, Elizabeth, 1927- 1981

His "deadlier Venus incarnate" might have traced her origins back through a host of Romantic lamias, undines, and melusines except that such figures were, as Swinburne reminds us, universally sympathetic to man in the Romantic tradition up to Swinburne's time.

The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology 1972

There, on one of the broadest tombstones, she saw sitting a circle of lamias.

The Wild Swans 1909

They saw her vanish into the church-yard through the wicket-gate; and when they drew near, the lamias were sitting upon the tombstone as Eliza had seen them; and the King turned aside, for he fancied her among them, whose head had rested against his breast that very evening.

The Wild Swans 1909