Lamia

Libyan Queen, wronged by Jupiter and hated by Juno. Robbed of her children, she became a child murdere and a monster.— Greek and Roman Mythology. Lamia. “I ki ed her hand, I called her blest, I held her leal and fair— She turned to shadow on my breast And melted into air! And lo! about me, fold on fold, A writhing serpent hung— An eye of jet, a skin of gold, A garnet for a tongue.” Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Lamia . Lamia. Beautiful woman, with a serpent’s nature and much of the serpent’s glittering, sinuous charm. A seductive creature who lures men only to destroy.— Lamia , poem by John Keats (1820).