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Mormo

Μορμώ), a female spectre, with which the Greeks used to frighten little children. (Aristoph. Ach. 582, Pax, 474.) Mormo was one of the same class of bugbears as Empusa and Lamia.

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    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 582
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