Lamia The Child Devourer

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Lamia (, in ancient Greek mythology, was a child-eating monster and, in later tradition, was regarded as a type of night-haunting spirit . In the earliest stories, Lamia was a beautiful queen of Libya who had an affair with Zeus. Upon learning this, Zeus's wife Hera robbed her of her children, the offspring of her affair with Zeus, either by kidnapping or killing them. The loss of her children drove Lamia insane, and in vengeance and despair, Lamia snatched up any children she could find and devoured them. Because of her cruel acts, her physical appearance changed to become ugly and monstrous. Zeus gave Lamia the power of prophecy and the ability to take out and reinsert her eyes, because she was cursed by Hera with insomnia and she could no longer close her eyes, so that she was forced to always obsess over her lost children.