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Ancient Greek mythology is absolutely full of things that go bump in the night. It’s one of the many reasons Greek mythology is still so popular today. How many films, novels, and video games take inspiration from the monsters found in these ancient myths? A classic example is the Lamia, a vicious child-devourer and a being so monstrous it has been described as the original bogeyman, although in this case, she was a woman. Who or What was the Lamia? Depictions of the Lamia have varied over the centuries. What began life as a very specific type of monster became a catch-all term for an entire subset of monsters by the Medieval era. In early Greek myths, the Lamia started