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Empusa (, ''Empousa'', of unknown meaning〔''An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon'', Liddell and Scott〕) is a demigoddess of Greek mythology. In later incarnations she appeared as a species of monsters commanded by Hecate (known in English as an empuse).〔("Empuse" at Dictionary.com )〕〔("Empuse" in ''Webtser's Revised Unabridged Dictionary'' (1913) )〕〔("Empuse" in Webster's Dictionary (1928) )〕 She is often associated or grouped with the demigoddesses Lamia and Mormo, who were likewise related as a kind of spectres in later mythology (the lamias and mormolyceas, respectively). == As a demigoddess == Empusa was the beautiful daughter of the goddess Hecate and the spirit Mormo. She is based on vampires, which the idea came from. She feasted on blood by seducing young men as they slept (see sleep paralysis), before drinking their blood and eating their flesh. Empusa is pictured as wearing brazen slippers and bearing flaming hair. By folk etymology, her name was said to mean "one-footed" (from Greek *έμπούς, '' *empous'': ''en-'', one + ''pous'', foot). This gave rise to the iconography of a one-legged hybrid, with a donkey's leg and a brass prosthetic leg.〔("Empousai" on Theoi Greek Mythology )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Empusa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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