Thank you Sasha, I’m glad to have read this now and not when I was little! I had nightmares back then about the Struelpeter stories! I’ll copy this for an elderly recently widowed friend in Athens. I think she’ll appreciate it. 😘
I jumped when I saw this story in my inbox as only just last week I had come across Lamia in the context of half woman up top and half serpent waist down and I can see how this archetype was assigned serpentine qualities especially in reference to the gift of prophecy but also the act of swallowing small children makes me think of an anaconda swallowing children or small animals
Thank you Sasha, I’m glad to have read this now and not when I was little! I had nightmares back then about the Struelpeter stories! I’ll copy this for an elderly recently widowed friend in Athens. I think she’ll appreciate it. 😘
I’m glad you enjoyed! More in this vein coming soon: I’ll do a dedicated piece on the female demons of Greek folklore at some point!
I jumped when I saw this story in my inbox as only just last week I had come across Lamia in the context of half woman up top and half serpent waist down and I can see how this archetype was assigned serpentine qualities especially in reference to the gift of prophecy but also the act of swallowing small children makes me think of an anaconda swallowing children or small animals