What is "lamias"

Usage examples of "lamias".

First, a large pride of lamias had tried to overwhelm the party with their beguiling powers, but drow on guard for such magical tricks were no easy prey.

Tawny blurs crouched atop a high wall perhaps forty or fifty yards distant, a handful of lamias who carried heavy crossbows and watched carefully for opportunities to shoot into the fray, their beautiful faces twisted into evil grins.

Long, silent hours passed in the darkness, with no sign that the lamias had dis­covered their hiding place.

The lamias were careless of the lives of their slaves, and perhaps do not have enough left to do a proper job of searching the city for us.

These statues of mine -- these devils, vampires, lamias, satyrs -- were all done from life, or, at least from recent memory.

Then, behind her, where stood an array of carven Satans and lamias, the room seemed to recede, the walls and floors dissolved in a seething, unfathomable gulf, amid whose pestilential vapors the statues were mingled in momentary and loathsome ambiguity with the ravening faces, the hunger-contorted forms that swirled toward us from their ultra-dimensional limbo like a devilladen hurricane from Malebolge.

In this world, at least, there are some things that are evil in themselves, such as demons and lamias, and things that are good in themselves, such as churches and bells.