Anonymous ID: ce4fb2 Sept. 7, 2021, 10:35 a.m. No.14535645   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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Lamia was a beautiful Libyan queen loved by Zeus. Thus, through no fault of her own, she incurred the wrath of Hera upon herself. Angry with Zeus’ interest for her, the goddess showed no mercy towards Lamia: every time the girl gave birth to a child, Hera either murdered it or made Lamia kill it herself. Either way, after a while, Lamia went mad and began stealing babies from mothers more fortunate than her only so that she could eat them. It is said that the wickedness of Lamia’s revenge was so unprecedented that it visiblydisfigured her face. In time, this child-eating monster became a bogey-woman, a word Greek mothers used to frighten their children into discipline and good behavior.

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Anonymous ID: ce4fb2 Sept. 7, 2021, 10:43 a.m. No.14535674   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Lamia, the Child-Eating Monster

Lamia’s Revenge

Most people, however, say that Lamia’s madness came only afterward. Weighed down by misfortune and “envying the happiness of all other women in their children,” Lamia began snatching new-born babies from their mothers' arms; then she brought them to her cave, “thickly covered with ivy and briony,” and, there, people say, she ate them head to toe. The savagery of Lamia’s heart was so great that, in time, her face turned into a nightmarish mask, and she started resembling beasts much more than she resembled any human. The baby-snatching so obsessed Lamia that she didn’t want to get any rest from it: she swore to bereave all mothers of their children, just as she had been once by Hera. In an attempt to stop this, Zeus rendered her eyes removable, and Lamia had to pluck them out and keep them in a jar during the day, blind to everything around her. However, at night, she’d put them back on and leave her cave to search for her next victim. According to others, however, Zeus gifted Lamia her removable eyes in an attempt to help her, since, in this scenario, Hera had also afflicted Lamia with sleeplessness which tormented the once beautiful Lybian queen even more.

 

Lamia, the Bogey-Woman

Source: https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Monsters/Lamia/lamia.html