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I'm bringing Lamia into conformance with MOS:DP, the manual of style for disambiguation pages. In the process, I need to get rid of a paragraph that (as near as I can tell) originated on Lamia (mythology). I'm bringing it here, in the hopes that someone will be able to make use of it. Sanguinity23:11, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
A Lamia (plural lamiak) in Basque legend is a water sprite that lives in caves. In the Basque Country, there are many places named after these creatures. Sometimes they take the form of beautiful women and attract men. The only way to tell they are not women is to look at their feet which are the feet of a duck. In some other legends they are half human and half fish. Most of time, they are seen combing their hair with golden combs. The only way to anger them is to steal one of their combs. The rest of the time they are kind. Other Basque legends say they are just the goddess Mari.
On the other side of the Pyrenees the comparable dangerous water nymph, sharing many of the same details, is Melusine.
