_Maniæ_ are deformed creatures, as =Festus= saith: and also vgly shapes, wherwith nursses make children afraid. [Sidenote: Mormo.] μορμω is a woman with a face almost of a monstrous fashion: hereof it is taken for a heg: as also μορμοιλύκειον, doth signifie a terrible sight, a spirit, or an elfe. =Nicephorus= saith in his Ecclesiasticall history, that a woman vsing to walke by night, is called by the name of =Gilo=. [Sidenote: Lamiæ.] L_amiæ_ were supposed of the auncient people to be women hauing eies to put out or in at their pleasure, or rather certaine shapes of diuels, which taking on them the shewe of beautifull women, deuoured children and yoong men, allured vnto them with swéete inticements. =Philostratus= in his booke =Appollonio=, writeth a maruellous history or fable of one =Menippus=, beloued of an hegge. The same authour writeth, that L_amiæ_ are called of some men L_aruæ_, spirits walking by night: and L_emurei_, night spirits of horrible shapes: and of many _Empusa_, ghoasts of variable fashion: and that nursses so named them to make their children afraide. =Chrysostomus Dion= writeth, that in the inmost part of _Affrike_ are certain wild beasts, hauing the countenance of a woman, which in like manner are called L_amiæ_: and he saith that they haue their paps and al the rest of their breast so faire as any Painters wit can deuise, which being vncouered, they deceitfully allure men vnto them, and when they haue taken them, doo forthwith deuoure them. [Sidenote: Lamiæ of Hier chap.4.] In the fourth chapter of the Lamentations of =Hieremie=, it is saide: _Lamiæ nudauerunt mammas suas_, _&c._ =Apuleius= writeth, that _Lamiæ_ are things that make Children affraide. [Sidenote: Striges.] _Lamiæ_ are also called _Striges_. _Striges_ (as they say) are vnluckie birdes, which sucke out the blood of infantes lying in their cradles. And hereof some men will haue Witches take their name, who also are called _Volaticæ_, as =Festus= writeth. [Sidenote: Gorgones.] The name of _Gorgon_, was inuented to make children afraid: for they say these _Gorgons_ are rauening spirites, such as men faine _Lamiæ_ to be. [Sidenote: Incubi.] [Sidenote: Succubi.] _Ephialtæ_, and _Hyphialtæ_, that is, _Incubi_ & _Succubi_, (which we call Maares) are night spirits or rather Diuels, which leape vpon men in their sléepe. The Phisitians do affirme, that these are nothing else but a disease. [Sidenote: Empusa.] _Empusa_, is an apparition of the Diuel, or a spirit which sheweth it selfe vnto such as are in misery, chaunging his shape into diuers formes, and for the most part appeareth at noone time. Read more hereof in =Suidas=. [Sidenote: Dicelon.] [Sidenote: Hecatæa.]