Lamia. Face of woman, body of serpent (or body of sow, and legs of horse)

Motif

Lamia. Face of woman, body of serpent (or body of sow, and legs of horse).

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Beast-men. · view the constellation · filed as B29.1

Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

CzechMáchal Slavic 265
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Bolte FFC XXXIX 5 n. 1–Icel.: Herrmann Saxo II 603

Within the index

Filed under Other combinations of beast and man.

Filed beside it

Echidna. Half woman, half serpent Man-hog Man-cat Man-wolf Man-elk Man-bear Man-hedgehog. Upper half of body like hedgehog Man-ape

Carried in tale types

The King and the Lamia · ATU 4111 recorded variant

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