Maenad

She's a Maenad which is a creature that requires offerings/tributes from other supernaturals/creatures (most often in the form of Alcohol) If they’re not properly honored they tend to get angry and cause madness in people (supernatural and human) or even kill them.

Comic-Con: True Blood Q&A | /Film 2009

The reason that her rare condition is important to the story is because the Maenad Cytosis infection, the outbreak of which has caused the Xombie Apocalypse, is carried by menstruating women, or women who have reached puberty and are now capable of having children.

Xombies: Apocalypse Blues (Avoid This Like the Plague) « A Working Title 2009

The ostensible climax of the season the Maenad/Maryann storyline coming to a head occurs about 20 minutes in.

True Blood Season 2 Finale, Beyond Here Lies Nothin - What Did You Think? | /Film 2009

I'm glad a Maenad was so popular with American audiences...

True Blood Season 2 Finale, Beyond Here Lies Nothin - What Did You Think? | /Film 2009

I discussed this with some friends afterward, and we all agreed if they did NOTHING to any of the other characters after the whole Maenad incident and just made Bill's character disappear, it would have sufficed as the cliffhanger to bring in Season 3.

True Blood Season 2 Finale, Beyond Here Lies Nothin - What Did You Think? | /Film 2009

I appreciate getting some clear information from Daphne about Maryann -- she's an immortal Maenad who can control everyone but "supernaturals" -- but when Daphne tells Sam the truth, why doesn't he do anything?

Mark Blankenship: True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode 7 2009

But all the stuff with the Maenad and her dionysian parties has gone on far too long, as did the shallow satire of the preacherman and his cute bubblehead wife.

WOODSTOCK reviewed 2009

So we all drowned out serpentstar's complete emotional collapse "This is really quite good." with our own ecstatic Maenad cries.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2008

And Jack ensconced himself behind the pair, as Ayacanora whirled upon deck like a very Maenad, and, seeing Amyas, stopped short.

Westward Ho! 2007

    Or a Maenad I, an eunuch? or a part of a body slain?

Poems and Fragments 2006