Pronounced: grahn gee-NYOL, noun/adj
Notes: This is new to me (the word Grand is pronounced nasally)
Yesterday’s word
The lamia is a female demon; vampire
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid- to late 1300s
Background / Comments
Our word came from Greek mythology; Lamia was a queen of Libya – one of Zeus’s many loves. Hera (Zeus’s wife) killed the children from the Zeus/Lamia union, and then Lamia in grief/retaliation killed every child she could. The legend grew to be of a fiend that devoured young men and sucked the blood of children.
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