lamia

But Nicander the Colophonian, in his essay on Dialects, says that the carcharias is also called the lamias and the squill.

The Seventy, in Isaiah, translate the Hebrew lilith by lamia.

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

Why," returned Calandrino, "'tis not to go farther, but there is a damsel below, fairer than a lamia, and so mightily in love with me that 'twould astonish thee.

The word lamiae signified, walking spirits, which, according to the vulgar notion, devoured men; this makes the spirit of the sarcasm against the tax-gatherers.