Empusa

For only lately -- lately, do I say? only yesterday or the day before -- did he become at once an Athenian and an orator, and by the addition of two syllables converted his father from Tromes into Atrometus, and gave his mother the imposing name of Glaucothea, [n] when every one knows that she used to be called Empusa [n] -- a name which was obviously given her because there was nothing that she would not do or have done to her; for how else should she have acquired it?

The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912

No, it's not the law, but an Empusa with a body covered with blemishes and blotches.

The Ecclesiazusae 2000

No, 'tis not the law, but an Empusa [730] with a body covered with blemishes and blotches.

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

Oh! my god! how white I went at the sight of the Empusa!

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

He is enchanted with the ghoulish vampire Empusa and the monster Lamia, half-snake half-woman, and at length finds _his_ ideal of beauty in the loathsome and terrible Phorkyads, daughters of Phorkys, an old god of the sea.

The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'

The genera allied to _Mantis -- Vates, Empusa, Harpax_, and

Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various

_Empusa_, or 'The Foul Phantom': a female demon capable of assuming any shape.

The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912

The first teaching which children will receive is in the form of fables and goblin tales from their mothers and nurses, -- usually with the object of frightening them into "being good," -- tales of the spectral Lamiæ, or of the horrid witch Mormo who will catch nasty children; or of Empusa, a similar creature, who lurks in shadows and dark rooms; or of the Kabaloi, wild spirits in the woods.

A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life William Stearns Davis 1903

And it may be conjectured that in that versatile lady Empusa we have but another artist of the same kind, mythologically treated.

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894

The Empusa, who is comparatively rare on the brushwood in the neighbourhood, is also rare in the store-houses of the

More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869