Editing Lamia (section)

==Greek Mythology==
As with many fantasy monsters originating from Greek Mythology, the original was actually a unique monster. In this case, Lamia was her given name, and she used to be the queen of <strike>Lybia</strike> <strike>Labia</strike> Libya. She was also the lover of [[Zeus]], [[FATAL|which everybody knows how that ends]] considering who the latter's wife is. Hera, discovering her husband had an affair, did what every ultra jealous goddess did and killed Lamia's children. Oh and then cursed her with insanity and the inability to fall asleep. These three factors caused the queen to mutate over time into a monster with the upper half of a woman and the lower half being that of a snake that would prey on and devour children and young men. [[What|Somehow.]] Zeus, seeing that all of this is something he's to blame for, at least made sure her life won't suffer so much and gave her the ability to remove her eyes from her eye sockets so she would have something that is closest to sleeping.

A similar creature but not certainly not the OG-namesake Lamia was the Scythian Drakaina/Echidna (Echidna means she-viper) or ''the'' Echidna who either way was a woman with her thighs going into a snake's tail (and given the famous Echidna was said to be the mother of basically all of the Greek monsters, the differences over who this [[Monstergirl]] was were quite distinct but we digress). Again, either way, it's said [[Hercules]] banged this [[Monstergirl]] after she stole his horses and demanded she give him children before she returned them. She would give birth to three sons, the youngest of which would become the first king of the Scythians.