Lamia

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This is NOT a page about Wiccans or neo-pagans, and I do not advocate the belief that Wiccans are Satan-worshippers and/or baby-killers. I am well aware that they are not. This is a starting point for historical research into the great witch craze of 1100-1700 AD. And please, don't ask me for spells.

Lamia

Although lamia were generally believed to have been demons, associated with succubus and with Lilith, they were also synonymous to some with witches. Lamia witches could either look like women, but with horse's hoofs (Wedeck 140), or they could be a "scaly, four-legged creature, with hoofs behind and paws in front, with a woman's face, a hermaphrodite with a man's organ and woman's breasts" (K. Briggs 260).

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