| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Spirit name "Lamia" | Greece | She is a vampire type spirit who stole small children and sucked people's blood, currently accepted in modern Greece |
"Lamia" | Greek | The friend and charioteer of Antilochus. Greek |
| Hero name "Lamia" | Greek | A daughter of Poseidon, became by Zeus the mother of the Sibyl Herophile. Greek<.li>. |
"Lamia" | Greek | Lamia by John Keats, A son of Apollo and Phthia, a brother of Dorus and Polypoethes, in Curetis, was killed by Aetolus. |
"Lamia" | Greek | A son of Bias and Pero, and a brother of Talaus, took part in the expedition of the Argonauts, and in that of the Seven against Thebes. Greek |
| King name "Lamia" | Greek | A female phantom, by which children were frightened. According to tradition, she was originally a Libyan queen, of great beauty and a daughter of Belus. She was beloved by Zeus, and Hera in her jealousy robbed her of her children. Lamia, from revenge and despair, robbed others of their children, and murdered them; and the savage cruelty in which she now indulged rendered her ugly, and her face became fearfully distorted. Zeus gave her the power of taking her eyes out of her head, and putting them in again. Greek |
| Demon name "Lamia" | s | A hag or demon. Keats's Lamia is a serpent which had åśśumed the form of a beautiful woman, beloved by a young man, and gets a soul. |
"Lamies" | Africa | African spectres, having the head of a woman and tail of a serpent. |
| Spirit name "Lamin" | Basque | A spirit of human form, generally female, with the feet of an animal. Basque |
"Lamminin" | Scottish | Lamkin, Linkin or Bold Rakin. A scottish ogre, represented in the ballad as a bloodthirsty mason; the terror of the Scots nursery. |
"Lamp of Phoebus" | Greek | The Sun. Phoebus is the mythological personification of the Sun. Greek |
"Lampos and Phaeton" | Greek | The two steeds of Aurora. One of Act?on's dogs was called Lampos. Greek |
"Lamps" | Christendom | The seven lamps of sleep. In the mansion of the Knight of the Black Castle were seven lamps, which could be quenched only with water from an enchanted fountain. So long as these lamps kept burning, everyone within the room fell into a deep sleep, from which nothing could rouse them till the lamps were extinguished. Christendom |
"Lampus" | Greek | The name of two horses, one belonging to Eos, the other to Hector. Greek |
"Lampus" | Greek | A son of Laomedon, and father of Dolops, was one of the Trojan elders. Greek |
"Lan Cai-he" | China | One of the eight immortals, sometimes a boy, sometimes a girl |
| Deity name "Lan Cai-he" | Taoist / Chinese | Immortal being. One of the eight immortals of Taoist mythology, the deity is of ambiguous sex, sometimes depicted as a girl. Once a mortal being who achieved immortality through perfect lifestyle. Attributes include flowers and a flute. See also BA XIAN.... |
"Lan Caihe" | China | One of the eight immortals, sometimes a boy, sometimes a girl China |
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