Lamia the queen of Libya, fell in love with Zeus which didn’t make Hera very happy in which caused Lamia trouble. Lamia’s parents aren’t clear in the stories, in one of the stories her parents are Poseidon and Lybie and in the other one her parents are Libya and Belus. Hera killed Lamia’s children except Scylla(who was also cursed) due to her affair with Zeus, Lamia went into a deep depression and took up murdering and eating children during her grieving process. It is believed that she was turned into a monster by Hera putting a curse on her or either during the grieving process of her children getting killed. Lamia had a vicious sexual appetite that matched her cannibalistic appetite for children, she was notorious for being a vampiric spirit and loved sucking mens blood. It is also …show more content…
A witness explained the Devil; “It was about three feet and half high, with a head like a collie dog and a face like a horse. It had a long neck, wings about two feet long, and its back legs were like those of a crane, and it had horse’s hooves. It walked on its back legs and held up two short front legs with paws on them. It didn’t use the front legs at all while we were watching.” The Jersey Devil is known to eat animals including dogs, sheep, pigs, cow and many more animals, he ripped his preys apart with his sharp claws. Commodore Stephen Decatur, a naval hero, was testing his cannon on the firing range when he saw a strange creature flying across the sky. He fired and hit the creature but it kept flying across the firing field. Jack E. Boucher, author of Absagami Yesteryear, has a theory in which he believes the devil was a deformed child. There are many theories involving the Jersey