Does anyone know what the heck a lamia is? It's mentioned several times on one page in #1, when Mr. Underwood is teaching Nat.

Well, according to Wikipedia...

* Lamia the Latin word for vampire or witch.
* Lamia, a city in Greece
* Lamia, a Greek mythological figure
* Lamiak (sing. lamia), a Basque mythological nymph-like creature
* Lamia, a mouse-like animal in New Guinea
* Lamia is a genus of beetles
* A poem by John Keats, available at Wikisource
* The name of the mother of the Libyan Sibyl
* "The Lamia," a song on the Genesis album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
* Lamia Loveless, a fictional character from the Super Robot Wars series
* Lamia was a recurring monster in the Final Fantasy series, often having a tiara in their possession to be dropped or stolen
* Lami is a character from Kyoryuu Sentai ZyuRanger, agent of Bandora and wife of Grifozor. The two have a human child at the end of the series.
* The Arabic word for "fiend."
* Lamia is the name of a character from Betterman.


Found that intresting, thought you might.

Wow! :o Was that all from Wiki?

Yep.

There's individual articles for some of it, but they were kind of unrelated.

Like the Robot show thing...

I don't think we will ever find out, probably just a famous Djinn.

Perhaps I should read up on that section.

I thought it would either be the city from Greece or a spirit named after the mythological character.

But I looked it up and apparently it's a magicial creature that is soothed with music.

Probably like this:

Lamiak (sing. lamia), a Basque mythological nymph-like creature

Ahh, now that you mention that, I remember. Wasn't it his music teacher, not Underwood that mentioned it?

Edit: Yep, on page 61: ""How," Mr. Sindra yelled, "do you propose to summon a lamia with plucking like this? How? The mmind boggles! Give me that!""

Yep.

The fat, evil one. He's the reason I began to bond with Nat.

Certain music teacher parallel.

Haha, I like your description of him...the fat, evil one. :D

There's a lot of those, aren't there?

Ok, the sasauage fingered, evil one.

There's a lot less of those.

Lamia wasn't capitalized, it is a type of spirit, not one spirit's name. Maybe some type of greater djinn, that for some reason is soothed by string instruments.

Yes, I added that after I looked it up.

I actually think it's a lower spirit, which is why it's soothed.

Probably a lesser subtype of djinni.

Maybe we should ask Mr. Stroud.

Because it could be the most powerful spirit (horribly unlikely) there ever was for all we know.

Sasauage fingered, evil one...even better! :D

I love it when people like my descriptions.

all that comes to mind is the llama song sorry

Our grade seven teacher was a total computer nerd. (But very cool.) He brought in Macs from home and we used them for all our projects. I don't think we did any big projects that didn't involve movies and music. Anyway, he always found the weirdest clips and movies online for us. One of them was the Llama song. The other classes complained to the teacher about the noise later. WE couldn't stop laughing.

Oh, and BTW Lamia was a queen in ancient Greece. Either she had an affair with Zeus or she dishonoured Hera in some other way. In any case, hera turned her into an insane cannibal. She ate her own children but was never satisfied so she roamed the country, stealing children and eating them.

Well, that was basically the only reason Hera got mad.

Save for a few occasions.

Sometimes she "cursed" people when they forgot to honour her in a sacrifice.

I wasn't sure what to call it, it's not really cursing people, it's killing them, making them ill, or bringing insanity upon them.