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Pegasus

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For the naiad, the water nymph, see Pegasis. For other uses, see Pegasus (disambiguation). "Winged Horse" redirects here. For other uses, see Winged horse (disambiguation). This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in French . (March 2018) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation like Deepl or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation...

Lamia

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For other uses, see Lamia (disambiguation). This article is about a creature from Greek mythology. For the Basque lamia, see Lamia (Basque mythology). For the Bulgarian dragon, see Slavic dragon. For the Greek city, see Lamia (city). The Kiss of the Enchantress (Isobel Lilian Gloag, ca. 1890), inspired by Keats' Lamia , depicts Lamia as a half-serpent woman Lamia ( / ˈ l eɪ m i ə / ; Greek: Λάμια ), in ancient Greek mythology, was a woman who became a child-eating monster after her children were destroyed by Hera, who learned of her husband Zeus' trysts with her. Hera also afflicted Lamia with sleeplessness so she would anguish constantly, but Zeus gave her the ability to remove her own eyes. "Lamia" was also used as a bogey word to frighten and discipline children. In later traditions and storytelling, the lamiai became a type of phantom, synonymous with the empusai which seduced youths to satisfy their sexual appetite and fed on their flesh afterwar...