Crossword-Solution: LAMIAS 6 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Marcassus relates that after a long war in Syria, during the night, troops of lamias, female evil spirits, appeared upon the field of battle, unearthing the hastily buried bodies of the soldiers, and devouring the flesh off their bones.

Aelius, of Lamus' ancient name (For since from that high parentage The prehistoric Lamias came And all who fill the storied page, No doubt you trace your line from him, Who stretch'd his sway o'er Formiae, And Liris, whose still waters swim Where green Marica skirts the sea, Lord of broad realms), an eastern gale Will blow to-morrow, and bestrew The shore with weeds, with leaves the vale, If rain's old prophet tell me true, The raven.

Aeli vetusto nobilis ab Lamo, Qnando et priores hinc Lamias ferunt Denominatos et nepotum Per memores genus omne fastos; Auctore ab illo ducis originem 5 Qui Formiarum moenia dicitur Princeps et innantem Maricae Litoribus tenuisse Lirim, Late tyrannus:--cras foliis nemus Multis et alga litus inutili 10 Demissa tempestas ab Euro Sternet, aquae nisi fallit augur Annosa cornix.

Still he sped on, fearing the tremendous outburst at the close, where Chopin throws overboard his soul, and with blood-red sails signals the hellish _Willis_, the Lamias of the lake, to his side.

She thought with terror of this solitary wandering and of the horrible lamias, but her will was firm as her trust in Providence.