What is "lamiae"

Usage examples of "lamiae".

This creature before us is the effigy of the Lamiae, the female serpent which lives in the sea at the edge of Sha'angh'sei.

The coils writhed beneath him and he rode the Lamiae from out of the shallows of the Sha'angh'sei sea, past the creaming reefs, teeming with life, and out, away, away, on the great westerly currents, into the deep.

Succubi, fair but baneful, lamiae with the round soft bodies of women, came to tempt me in the drear vigils of the night.