lamia

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As a general rule the book translates or puts into Western terms several designations left untranslated in the anime, such as palace names, yoma being referred to as demons, nyokai as lamia (a term which may be too specific to Sansi's form to be accurately used for nyokai in general), and nyoken as oracles.

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  1. noun Greek Mythology A monster represented as a serpent with the head and breasts of a woman that ate children and sucked the blood from men.
  2. noun A female vampire.

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  • But in Mundania creatures like the lamia, manticora, and dragon never evolved Of course not. —  A Spell for Chameleon
  • Now listen, I'll spill what I don't drink, so Lord Grey will come rushing to your rescue in Venice as surely as my lamia rushed to where I'd spilled Shelley's and my blood. —  Tim Powers - The Stress of Her Regard
  • The roads were supposed to be safe, but a young man in possession of a powerful instrument of magic never knows when he might run into a brigand or a lamia. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 01 - July 2000
  • Even as a kid, I knew a lot of this was hokey—the perilously seductive lamia-like women, the lost worlds hidden at the Earth's core, the spunky male sidekicks, the nefarious foreigners who attempt (vainly) to thwart Merritt's muscular heroes. —  MFSF,January2005
  • The writing is poetic in the good way, and there's a lamia. —  Shaken & Stirred
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Latin, from Greek.

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  1. from Latin lamia, from Greek λάμια, a female demon (see def.).
 

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