Talk:Lamia/@comment-27950421-20170201001347/@comment-29602226-20170221190319

Actually, there are several versions of the Lamia. Lamias were often depicted as snakes with human heads and breasts during the Renaissance.

The version of KC is identical to the version portrayed by Jorge Luis Borges in his Book of Imaginary Beings in every way, save Borges's version eats people instead of having sex with them...

However, Borges liked to mix his own fabrications with references to real-life mythology and folklore or works of other writers... So I don't know to what extent Borges's version of the Lamia comes from folklore and myth and to what extent was made up by him.

Mmmm... I wonder if Borges's book is a direct inspiration for KC's MGE....